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Adler and Ritz follow up their A Picture Book of Anne Frank by briefly describing two other young victims of the Holocaust, 18-year-old Hilde Rosenzweig and nine-year-old Eli Lax. Neither has a particular claim on public memory-Hilde's brother escaped from Germany to England in 1940, while three of Eli's sisters survived various concentration camps; these siblings told Hilde's and Eli's stories to Adler. Unfortunately, Adler deals out sweet generalizations and few telling particulars ("Eli had no real toys, but he was a happy child who was always smiling"), thus failing to memorialize Hilde and Eli as anything but representative victims of the Nazis. Ritz's paintings seem modeled on photographs, but they, too, have a generic quality. It should be noted that a basic awareness of the Holocaust is presumed-this story is only for those with a previously developed interest in the subject. Ages 6-9.
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Grade 3-5-Hilde Rosenzweig and Eli Lax were both Jewish children who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust; they had nothing else in common. Thus, pairing their stories for this book seems peculiar and contrived. Opening with Hilde, who was born in Germany in 1923, Adler portrays Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi political agenda from the German/Jewish perspective. He then introduces Eli, who was born in 1932 in Czechoslovakia, and sets the stage for the spread of Nazism and World War II. The integration of the facts into the stories of these two children's lives creates a confusing text that has too many complex political elements for the younger end of the intended audience and a picture-book format that's too juvenile for older readers. Ritz's paintings reflect the times with their muted, often somber colors. However, the faces are often distorted and the swastikas sometimes resemble the letter aleph in the Hebrew alphabet. A much better glimpse into the lives of children of the Holocaust for a younger audience is Chana Byers Abells's The Children We Remember (Greenwillow, 1986). Howard Greenfeld's The Hidden Children (Ticknor & Fields, 1993), Rian Verhoeven and Ruud Van Der Rol's Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary (Viking, 1993), and Nelly S. Toll's Behind the Secret Window (Dial, 1993) are all better offerings for older readers.
Sharon Grover, Arlington County Department of Libraries, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Adler and Ritz follow up their A Picture Book of Anne Frank by briefly describing two other young victims of the Holocaust, 18-year-old Hilde Rosenzweig and nine-year-old Eli Lax. Neither has a particular claim on public memory-Hilde's brother escaped from Germany to England in 1940, while three of Eli's sisters survived various concentration camps; these siblings told Hilde's and Eli's stories to Adler. Unfortunately, Adler deals out sweet generalizations and few telling particulars ("Eli had no real toys, but he was a happy child who was always smiling"), thus failing to memorialize Hilde and Eli as anything but representative victims of the Nazis. Ritz's paintings seem modeled on photographs, but they, too, have a generic quality. It should be noted that a basic awareness of the Holocaust is presumed-this story is only for those with a previously developed interest in the subject. Ages 6-9.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-Hilde Rosenzweig and Eli Lax were both Jewish children who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust; they had nothing else in common. Thus, pairing their stories for this book seems peculiar and contrived. Opening with Hilde, who was born in Germany in 1923, Adler portrays Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi political agenda from the German/Jewish perspective. He then introduces Eli, who was born in 1932 in Czechoslovakia, and sets the stage for the spread of Nazism and World War II. The integration of the facts into the stories of these two children's lives creates a confusing text that has too many complex political elements for the younger end of the intended audience and a picture-book format that's too juvenile for older readers. Ritz's paintings reflect the times with their muted, often somber colors. However, the faces are often distorted and the swastikas sometimes resemble the letter aleph in the Hebrew alphabet. A much better glimpse into the lives of children of the Holocaust for a younger audience is Chana Byers Abells's The Children We Remember (Greenwillow, 1986). Howard Greenfeld's The Hidden Children (Ticknor & Fields, 1993), Rian Verhoeven and Ruud Van Der Rol's Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary (Viking, 1993), and Nelly S. Toll's Behind the Secret Window (Dial, 1993) are all better offerings for older readers.
Sharon Grover, Arlington County Department of Libraries, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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