- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape (1 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224070150
- ISBN-13: 978-0224070157
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 24.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 882,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A true story of survival and courage during the Second World War
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In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Ruth Vander Zee and her husband were in Germany where they met Erika, a German Jew, and listened to her story. Between 1933 and 1945 six million Jews were killed. Starved, shot, burned, gassed. Erika survived. Born some time in 1944, Erika does not know exactly when or where. She does not know what her parents called her, or whether or not she had brothers or sisters. But she does know that when she was just a few months old, she was saved from the Holocaust. In a cattle car, on their way to death, Erika's family threw her to life. She was thrown from the train, and taken to a woman who risked her life to care for this baby. She gave her a name, a birthdate, a home, food, clothes, life.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Much the best book we've found for teaching a young child something about the Holocaust without revleaing so much that it becomes inappropriate. My five-year-old daughter wanted to know more after catching a television report about Holocaust Memorial Day. She was entirely spellbound and very thoughtful without being unnecessarily horrified. It's a moving story, superbly and soberly illustrated.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought this book was brilliant because it was true. It was very brave of the mother to throw Erika out the shaft. The story made me feel lucky and sorry for all the people who were taken by the nazis. It was touchingly written and clever with the star pictures!
Format:Hardcover
Erika's Story is a beautiful piece of visual storytelling, with large detailed pictures supported by concise text. It recounts the tale of a holocaust survivor, thrown to safety from a death-camp bound train-carriage by her parents. The book has an unusual, landscape format, with pages wider than they are tall. Images of people being herded into cattle trucks, of traincars receding into icy distances, spread out in thin bars over the width of a two page spread, creating huge vistas. Although the scenes are filled with people, you will see few faces - every person is turning to look away, just as everything animate (the leaves, the rivers, the tiles on roofs) is fleeing, caught in an unseen current. Some of the pictures in this book are so filled with darkness and cold wood and steel that you won't notice they are drawn in full colour.
I found Erika's Story truly affecting, bringing home the human cost of the holocaust by showing up the incredible value of a single survivor's life. It is a book that children can understand: the text is simple, the images are comprehensive. There is nothing ghoulish or gruesome about this book, but you might do well to expect tears. On a topic so important, however, tears are the correct response.
I found Erika's Story truly affecting, bringing home the human cost of the holocaust by showing up the incredible value of a single survivor's life. It is a book that children can understand: the text is simple, the images are comprehensive. There is nothing ghoulish or gruesome about this book, but you might do well to expect tears. On a topic so important, however, tears are the correct response.
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