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The Holocaust Library - The Resistance

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My Class is beginning to study about World War II and the Holocaust. We were recently given an assignment to choose a book about the Holocaust and write a book review about it. The book I chose to read is part of The Holocaust Library, called The Resistance written by Deborah Bachrach. The Holocaust Library includes seven volumes that cover different parts of the Holocaust.

According to this book more than eleven million people were killed by the Germans in World War II. It covers the beginning when Adolph Hitler began World War II trying to be a worldwide leader. The book tells how Hitler planned to kill the Jewish people and hide it from the rest of the world. It also describes the resistance small and large that the Jews showed against the Germans. The book tells about which countries helped the Jews and which ones turned their backs. This book goes into great detail about the Holocaust and of the details of all the horrible killings and all the things the Jews did to try and save themselves, their families and friends.

After finishing the book I have decided that I really didn't like it. A lot of the words are very difficult to pronounce especially the German and foreign language words. We have learned about some of the words in class but too much of the time I didn't quite understand what they were talking about. I felt it had too many details about one subject, then took off on another subject and it was just to much back and forth, it just couldn't hold my attention. One good thing about the book were the pictures. They really showed what life must have been like during the Holocaust. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone my age just to read for fun. This type of book would be better used if you had to write a research paper.