Boy from Buchenwald (eBook)

Waisman Robbie Waisman, McClelland Susan McClelland (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
288 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-5476-0601-6 (ISBN)

Infos

It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was-let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other boys, including Elie Wiesel, these teens were dubbed "e;The Buchenwald Boys."e; They were angry at the world for their abuse, and turned to violence: stealing, fighting, and struggling for power. Everything changed for Romek and the other boys when Albert Einstein and Rabbi Herschel Schacter brought them to a home for rehabilitationRomek Wajsman, now Robbie Waisman, humanitarian and Canadian governor general award recipient, shares his remarkable story of transforming pain into resiliency and overcoming incredible loss to find incredible joy.Finalist for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Lernen / Lernspiele
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• ISBN-10: 1-5476-0601-0 / 1547606010
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5476-0601-6 / 9781547606016