Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust [Hardcover]

Susan Bachrach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 1994

Written by a staff member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book draws on the museum's collection of period artifacts, photographs, maps, and oral and video histories to teach youngsters about the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This ambitious work, produced in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the book equivalent of a museum tour. Each spread investigates a different aspect of the Holocaust: the rise of the Nazi party, the Wannsee conference, the murder of the mentally ill, persecution of homosexuals and gypsies, and the destruction of the Jews. While unusually comprehensive, the text does not dominate the book. Thoughtfully chosen, uncommon documentary photographs overwhelm the pages with their pathos and horror (a woman, sitting on a park bench marked "for Jews only," hides her face from the camera; grinning children pose shortly before their mass execution in a Lithuanian shtetl; a killing squad trains its rifles on a Soviet Jew perched above a ditch filled with corpses). Individual experience is literally marginalized here, as the experiences of 20 young persons are telegraphed episodically alongside the body of the text. There is much to compel thought, but there is little attempt at synthesis-rather, each entry, textual or illustrative, seems to compete for the reader's attention. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 5 Up-Intended to extend the experience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum beyond its walls, this book reproduces some of its artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories. Many of them are from archival collections in the museums of Germany, the Netherlands, England, and Poland, as well as those in the United States. The book is divided into three sections: Germany before and during the Nazi regime; the final solution, including the ghettos; and rescue, resistance, and liberation. Bachrach makes the victims of Hitler's cruelty immediate to readers, showing that, like readers, they were individuals with hobbies and desires, friends and family. Two interesting devices are used to generate emotional involvement. The first is an attractive "cast of characters," guileless young people whose pictures, taken from their identity cards, smile innocently out from the page and in other photographs, enjoying life. The second is to insert these same identity cards and photos of life before Hitler into the narrative of destruction so that readers can trace what is happening to the young people at different points in the Holocaust until their death or the war's end. Thus, this is a very personal approach to Holocaust history and a very effective one.
Marcia Posner, Federation of New York and the Jewish Book Council, New York City
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown; 1st edition (October 3, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316692646
• ISBN-13: 978-0316692649
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,883,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Holocaust books to read, November 20, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust (Paperback)

This book gives a good explanation of the Holocaust with pictures and everything. I've read many a Holocaust book and this one is one of the best so if your looking for a Holocaust book look no more this is the one.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Education to those not knowing, July 9, 2004

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This review is from: Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust (School & Library Binding)

This book explains the depth the Nazis went to get rid of whole nationalities,races and religions. It teaches readers young and old of how awful the circumstances where and how some survived. They have beautiful pictures, and vivid accounts of survivors. I would recommend this for schools and young children. Some children dont see the importance of this and they will learn that they should not repeat this cruel history, we teach them to learn from past mistakes to prevent the end of the future.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book was very information-packed and very well-done., November 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust (Hardcover)

I am a fifth-grader who is reading this book for a book report on the Rebecca Caudell Awards book list. This book is very informational about the Holocaust and tells things in a very detailled way, not a broad way as in some books. The book told what happened at the camps and what happened in the ghettos. I think that the book was very well done and the chronology and the glossary were both done very well. The stories of the people who suffered really made an impact on me. Most of the stories were very short but some of them were long and I think that they were important.