Helpful Score: 3
This short and simple book tells the tale of one family's destruction by the Nazis under Hitler. The story of Friedrich is told from the viewpoint of his closest childhood friend. Both only children, they spend a lot of time together. They live in the same apartment building with a landlord who symbolizes the evil aggressors against the Jewish population. As the story opens, storyteller's father is out of work while Friedrich's father is employed as a civil servent. As Nazism takes root, Friedrich's father is "retired" from his job. Events continue to go downhill for this family and though many of us know the atrocities committed by the Nazis, it's still hard to believe that such an educated population would succumb so easily to genocide through scapegoating of the most ridiculous assertions. A powerful book for teens as well as adults that I definitely recommend.
An ongoing story from 1925-1942. Quite interesting.
unforgettable story of the death of a young jewish boy in germany
during the holocaust..left alone to die
during the holocaust..left alone to die
A classic novel of the Holocaust. This story tells about the friendship between Friedrich, a young Jewish boy, and his Aryan friend, from 1933 through 1942. It has a good timeline of historical events at the end covering the events in the story. It was translated from the German, which certainly shows in the slightly stilted English. This is a young adult book. I would only recommend it for teens and older, due to the subject matter.
