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The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin Paperback – January 30, 2015

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  • Age Range: 8 - 11 years
  • Grade Level: 3 - 6
  • Lexile Measure: 800 (What's this?)
  • Paperback: 40 pages
  • Publisher: Holiday House; Reprint edition (January 30, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0823421546
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823421541
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 0.1 x 9.9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe rare younger non-fiction title
By E. R. Bird HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on October 29, 2006
Format: Hardcover
A couple of years ago, Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner collaborated together to bring the world a picture book by the name of "Brundibar". Based on the opera that the Jewish children of the Terezin concentration camp had to sing, the book was filled to brimming with good intentions and sadly lacking in any and all factual information. It was more a labor of love than a book meant to enlighten children as to the significance of its content. When "Brundibar" came out, it felt as if it was reliant on a book that had not yet come to exist. Where oh where was the children's work of non-fiction that would tell younger kids what Terezin was, why "Brundibar" was important, and what it all meant? Three years later, Holiday House publishes Ms. Susan Goldman Rubin's, "The Cat With the Yellow Star" and a gap in children's collections everywhere is filled. And quite frankly, no other book could have felt quite as satisfying as this.

The story of young Ela Stein begins on Kristallnacht in Sudetenland, after it was annexed to Germany. Ela was eight when that terrible night occurred, and she and her family soon ran away to Czechoslovakia. Then, in 1942, Ela was sent with her mother to Terezin from their home. A converted fortress, the camp was a place where Ela and the other children who lived with her in Room 28 would secretly study, learn art, and cast themselves in the opera Brundibar. In the show, Ela was cast as The Cat and the Nazi leaders of the ghetto decided that they would use the children's show as an example to the Red Cross of how well they treated their Jewish prisoners. Of course, of the 10,632 children sent to Terezin, only 4,096 survived.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin
By Jewish Book World Magazine on October 12, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Susan Goldman Rubin's work does much to broaden young readers' understanding of the Holocaust. Again she succeeds with this sensitive and passionate non-fiction book on a little known Holocaust era figure. While Rubin was researching for her award-winning book, Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin, she attended a performance of Brundibar, the children's opera staged at Terezin. In the elevator, she recognized Ela Weissberger as a woman who as a child had played the cat in the Terezin production. From that chance meeting, after years of communication and collaboration, this book evolved.

Using photographs, along with full-color drawings by the children of Terezin, Rubin presents a poignant, matter-of-fact account of what it was like for Ela to be a Jewish child living with fear, yet able to escape for hours at a time through the power of friendship, music, art and learning. Rubin, who also wrote The Children of Terezin (2000) for older readers, never glosses over the daily threat of transports and the fact that some of the prisoners did not survive. But she also documents that, even in that traumatic time, devoted adults and determined children could forge close bonds, using art and music to help them endure and even grow. Includes numerous interviews with Weissberger and others, detailed source notes, print and non-print resources, and an index. Ages 9-12. Reviewed by Rita Berman Frischer
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5.0 out of 5 starsA 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers
By Rachel Kamin on January 28, 2007
Format: Hardcover
Author Susan Rubin presents the true story of survivor Ela Weissberger, born Ela Stein, whose family's Holocaust journey ends in Terezin, the Nazi camp famous for the art and music that was sustained there by the inmates and that was used by the Nazis to fool the Red Cross into believing they had given a model town to the Jews. Beginning at age 11, Ela survives physically by working in a garden, emotionally by bonding with the other girls in Room 28, and artistically by performing in the children's opera, Brundibar, a story of triumph over a bullying organ-grinder. Ela plays the role of the cat. Later, as an adult, she attends performances of the play around the world, telling her story and explaining how "music, art, good teachers, and friends" were her resistance against the Nazis. She also keeps in touch with the surviving girls from Room 28. Although a story about a child, the book does not shy away from describing the round-ups, deportations, transports, disappearances, disease, and starvation witnessed by Ela. Because of these harsh but accurate details, the book is not for younger readers. The abundant photos, color reproductions, and exhaustive source notes and references (a source is given for each and every quotation) make this book an outstanding resource for students of Terezin and the now-famous Brundibar. This book is a good companion to Brundibar by Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner as well as Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin. REVIEWED BY SUSAN BERSON (DENVER, CO)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA bewildering time for all, especially children:
By Vera C. Karger on June 7, 2011
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One of the children who spent time in Terezin, Ela Stein Weissberger, here recounts from the beginning of Hitler-directed devastation, how she & her family & friends were affected. Ela is one of the children written about in the book, The Girls in Room 28," & here she expands on her experiences, but from the start of hostilities aimed specifically at Jews.

A short book, a moving story, very good photos, a must-read.
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