children

Tells of Gil and Eleanor Kraus' dramatic rescue of fifty children from Vienna during World War II. Draws on Eleanor Kraus' memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with surviving children. Also includes black-and-white photographs, archival materials, and memorabilia.

From back page: Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, and only about a hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. These few then went back to the scattered pieces of their lives, their homes and families. Raja lived through it all at Terezin, teaching children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little reason for hope. This play is her story. It is history as much as any play can be history, showing the best and the worst of which the human heart is capable.

Cyrla, a young Jewish woman from Poland living with Dutch relatives, seeks temporary shelter from the Nazis by posing as her pregnant cousin Anneke who has committed suicide after being granted a place in the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies, and must learn to trust Karl, the soldier who impregnated and deserted Anneke, for her continued safety.

Author explains how children and adolescents grieve after someone loved dies.

Shares the stories of three teenagers who survived the Holocaust.

A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace with her own family.

Presents a portrait of the Bush political dynasty and their influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century America, from Connecticut senator Prescott Bush, through his grandson, George W., the forty-third president of the United States.

Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.