Reviews for Kinderlager

The average rating for Kinderlager based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-01 00:00:00 Monica Mcintosh In the book Kinderlager by Milton J. Nieuwsma is about The Holocaust and in a point of view of three younger girls. Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenenbaum, and Rachel Hyams is a young girl that has just moved into a city in Poland. This story shows the point of view of three young girls who has survived the holocaust and the camps. Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenenbaum, and Rachel Hyams all came from the same small town in Poland. They have been threw alot of ghettos and forced labor camps, all three girls were transported to Auschwitz with their mothers and for a time were together in Kinderlager located in the separate part of the children section. When The Nazis yelled out through the camps, "Alle Juden raus!" (translates to "All Jews out") echoed through the camp, the three girls ran to their mothers and hid with them while they watch all the rest of the Jews, what seemed like a death march to different death camps and were experimented on and killed. On January 27, 1945, the date of the three girls birthday, Tova was six, Frieda was ten, and Rachel was seven. Nieuwsma a journalist, tells the stories of the lives of these women from childhood and the horror of the displaced persons camps, the often futile search for things of information about a surviving family, and the difficult decision to emigrate. In the story of each woman's adult life, there is a hidden memory and post-traumatic stress; Tova speaks of "existential loneliness" which basically means that she was very lonely everyday of the war and she had hardly ever seen Rachel or Tova. During every holiday Rachel would search for missing pieces of her life. Frieda re tells one of the most horrible parts of being a child in the labor camps, "if you ever cried in the war, you would be killed. But i can do it now, and it's a precious thing." The photographs of women with their children and grandchildren are a big part of their strength and they wanted to survive but ever more they wanted their children to survive this war so they could tell everyone what has happened to them when they were little. Their very intense and scary stories is a thing you will rarely see anywhere else. This book tells the scariest of stories of little children and how they survived The Holocaust. What I like about this book is, I never liked reading but now I read this book and I actually really enjoy it, I also like how it's about history, and lastly I like how it gives descriptive information and details on what happened and how they survived the war as younger girls. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy history, people who like gory & scary stories, and lastly I would recommend this book to people who like first person point of view on books.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-11 00:00:00 Meleneal Cameron I read this in one day because it was so compelling. Tragic, unbelievable, heartbreaking; trying to imagine one of my children enduring and recounting life in concentration camps. It needs to be read so it isn't repeated.