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Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna
Altman Linda Jacobs

Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna

the Holocaust ghettos

Enslow Pub Inc (2014)
9780766062078
| library binding
$ 27.94 | Value: $ 11.86
Dewey 940.53/18538
LC Classification D804.3 .A454 2014
LC Control No. 2014007405

Subject

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Juvenile Literature
  • Jews - Persecutions - Juvenile Literature. - Germany
  • Jews - Persecutions - Juvenile Literature. - Poland
  • World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration Camps - Juvenile Literature

Plot

Ghettos were set up by the Nazis to isolate and segregate Jews from other members of the population. Author Linda Jacobs Altman details the hardships of ghetto life under Nazi rule in this book. Set up in many countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia, and Czechoslovakia, the author describes how the Jews kept alive their cultural and religious lives despite the poverty and hardships of ghetto life. Also included are accounts of the revolts by those who dared to fight back.