Terezin: Voices From The Holocaust
By: Ruth Thomson
Publisher: Candlewick Press Copyright Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4963-0
Genre: Informational Format: Non Fiction
Major Awards Received:
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2012 Honor Book United States
Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2012 Notable Book Older Readers
Summary: The accounts of what happened in Terezin have been complied in this book. Many of the artifacts from Terezin have their own stories to tell. By combining the artifacts and written accounts, this book is a way for us to connect to what was happening in the lives of the people who were forced to leave their homes and sent to Terezin.
Personal response: The pictures and artifacts that are represented in the book are of a life of many Jewish people that were forced to leave their homes and move into the fortress now called Theresienstadt. The first hand accounts of what they must have gone through were chilling.
Classroom connections: This would be an excellent book for an introduction to a unit on the Holocaust. I would read this book first as an introduction then I would go into more detail about the reasons they were chosen and why. The time line in the back of the book is very useful to get a scene of how in only 10 years so many tragic events happened.
Publisher: Candlewick Press Copyright Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4963-0
Genre: Informational Format: Non Fiction
Major Awards Received:
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2012 Honor Book United States
Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2012 Notable Book Older Readers
Summary: The accounts of what happened in Terezin have been complied in this book. Many of the artifacts from Terezin have their own stories to tell. By combining the artifacts and written accounts, this book is a way for us to connect to what was happening in the lives of the people who were forced to leave their homes and sent to Terezin.
Personal response: The pictures and artifacts that are represented in the book are of a life of many Jewish people that were forced to leave their homes and move into the fortress now called Theresienstadt. The first hand accounts of what they must have gone through were chilling.
Classroom connections: This would be an excellent book for an introduction to a unit on the Holocaust. I would read this book first as an introduction then I would go into more detail about the reasons they were chosen and why. The time line in the back of the book is very useful to get a scene of how in only 10 years so many tragic events happened.