The Lost Childhood: A Memoir

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Summary: This is a great Holocaust book!!
Review: The book The Lost Childhood is a great Holocaust book! It gives a great description of the horrible things that happened to the Jewish people. This book alone should tell you why teens should learn about the holocaust because I would never want any thing like this to happen again, and we are the future. It makes people realize that you should stand up for what you believe in and don't let people put other people down when they don't even know them.
This book is about a young boy who had to live through the Holocaust being Jewish. It tells how his mother, sister, and himself lived without knowing what happened to their father (husband), and how they went without being known as Jews. This book is very good because you get to know how it felt to be treated badly when you did nothing wrong except practice the religion you believe in. In this book they had very hard times from being sent to no one knows where to always running and hiding when they saw Germans. If you are interested in the Holocaust, this is a great book, but even if you are not this is a great dramatic adventure.

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Summary: This book is BACK IN PRINT!!!
Review: This extraordinary memoir is back in print! Scholastic re-issued it recently. Look for ISBN # 0439163897.

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Summary: This book is BACK IN PRINT!!!
Review: This is a very interesting book. This book is about a boy and his mother and his sister. They are all Jews, who servied the World War 2. The boy's name is Yehuda Nir. This is a hair-raising story.
Yehuda is the son of an affluent carpet manufacturer in Lwo'w, Poland. He has a nanny to take care of him and a German cook for him. He is only 9 years old. After the war started and they were forced into a smaller apartment.
Within the two years, the tide turns and the Nazi are again incontrol. Many Jews are seized on the streets, imprisoned, and executed. Yehuda's father is murdered. The family moves. Nazis sercure situations in Warsaw. His mother works as a domestic for a wealthy German playboy, catering orgies and meeting important Nazi officials.
Now their lives are turned upside down. They were living in a time where one had to be careful. They have to trust one another. Then finally there was a up rising in Warsaw. This is why I find this book interesting it is very good.

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Summary: Best War story ever
Review: this is the best World War Two story told.. I never liked history books but after i read the plot, i knew i had to read it. its true about what the person above said about reading it at night and you will not put it down until u finish it. I stayed up nights until 12, 1am to finish reading it.. i recommend everyone to read this even if you arent a fan of history. it will change your opinion.

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Summary: As Good As "Schindler's List"
Review: This page-turning memoir by Yehuda Nir, a New York City psychiatrist, tells the story of his family's experiences during World War II, as it masqueraded as Christians and hid from the Nazis. Nir's fascinating, well-written narrative operates on several levels. These include: the grim adventures of a boy, his sister, and their mother who are caught in a historical nightmare and are trying to survive; a psychiatrist describing how different members of his family coped with the stress of hiding in plain view; and the experiences and impressions of a normal boy growing up in an abnormal world, shadowed by the possibility of disclosure and death.

Amazingly, this bleak but inspiring story is also laced with humor. Laugh-out-loud moments are provided by the Russians, who bomb Warsaw with heavy parcels of non-parachuted food, destroying the homes of their Polish allies; and flustered German nurses near the war's end, who are distracted from detecting that Nir is Jewish by the aggressive lewdness of his fellow prisoners. Steven Spielberg, get that into a movie!

It's truly a shame this book is out of print, since it provides an accessible human slant on the important subject of Jewish experience during World War II. In my opinion, the unavailability of this book illustrates a sadly common condition in today's book industry, with editors throwing money at worthless blockbusters but not supporting books like "The Lost Childhood", which could become an adult perennial and a basic text in high school and college curriculums with just a minor marketing effort.