What Was the Holocaust?

Informationen zum Autor Gail Herman; Illustrated by Jerry Hoare Klappentext A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event-the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps-six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history. This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers. Zusammenfassung A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen! with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis! whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws! then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe! and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable! well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history. This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Herman, Herman Gail, Jerry Hoare, Who HQ
• Assisted by: Jerry Hoare (Illustration), Hoare Jerry (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780451533920
• ISBN: 978-0-451-53392-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 202 mm x 13 mm
• Series: What Was...?; What Was?
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Judaism, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Religion & beliefs: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, Educational: Religious studies: Judaism, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Judaism