We Are Witnesses : Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust

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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: A great book on the Holocaust, though it lacks the fullness of each individual story. I recommend it, although other books are much better. If you want info on 5 different stories quickly, this is for you, but you MUST read Anne Franks' diary as well. :)

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Summary: Touching, sad, but moving and worth the read
Review: Although many people think that reading such books as these, the accounts of teenagers who died while under the Nazi regime, is depressing...people should tell them, it should be. This book was very good, and I read it a few years ago during a class that I had to take. Everyone had read the Diary of Anne Frank, but although this includes excerpts of hers, I was interested to know what others thought. Whether or not they were as optimistic as she was. If you are looking for a read that will give you different perspectives on how teenagers thought about the Holocaust, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Good Source of Information on the Holocaust
Review: Have you ever wondered what life for Jewish teens was like during the Holocaust? David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne were five Jewish teens who lived and died during the Holocaust. Each of their lives and deaths are captured in this book, which uses factual information and chosen portions of their diary entries to compare their experiences. Boas efficiently chooses information to show what was happening at different times and places. His choice of entries, like Anne writing "...in spite of everything I still think people are really good at heart," supports the main theme that it is in the human nature to never give up hope. This book is very informational and eye opening, although it does not develop the five individual stories, which would make it more interesting and understandable. This book is good for anyone, but young adult readers will probably get the most out of it beacuse the main characters are young adults. This book made me want to learn more and gave me a greater understanding of the Holocaust.

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Summary: This is a good book
Review: I am a sixth and I'm reading a book about five teenagers who died in the Holocaust. the first diary is about a teenager named David Rubinowicz and his diary is called "The end of the world will soon be here".Yitzak Rubasheuski is the second diary of the book and his diary is called "Long live the youth!" Moshe Flinker is the third of this book and his diary is called "My name is Harry". Eva Heyan's is the fourth diary and her diary is called "I want to live!"Ann frank is the last diary of the book and her diary is called "I must uphold my Ideals". The reason I didn't wright anything about what happened is because I don't want to spoil the story for you. I liked this book because of the detials. The only bad part is that all the teenagers died.

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Summary: We Are Witnesses
Review: I read this book because I have always been interested in the Holocaust. I think that the writers portrayed the human spirit and the strength and courage that it takes few people to accomplish in a lifetime and the virtues that most people will never fully have. To completly understand what these 5 and millions of others went through is just mind baffling and almost impossible to comprehend. I think that this is an excellent book for readers of all ages to connect to.

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Summary: We Are Witnesses:
Review: I read this book because I have always been interested in the Holocaust. I think that the writers portrayed the human spirit and the strength and courage that it takes few people to accomplish in a lifetime and the virtues that most people will never fully have. To completly understand what these 5 and millions of others went through is just mind baffling and almost impossible to comprehend. I think that this is an excellent book for readers of all ages to connect to.

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Summary: This book was the best book I've ever read.
Review: If people havn't read this then your missing the best holocaust book you would ever read!!!

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Summary: the lives of teenagers in the Holocaust
Review: In writing this book, I was interested in broadening the perspective of what it was like to be a teenager in the Holocaust, going beyond Anne Frank and her famous diary to include the experiences of teenagers who were not necessarily in hiding and sometimes wrote their diaries with a gun pointed at their heads. What I found was that the teenage diarists experienced the Holocaust on an entirely different level than did adults. They felt more deeply the humiliation, the loss of friends, the loneliness, the apathy, the fear. Each was a young person coping with the impossible, yet managed, somehow, to hold on to their humanity and ideals until the bitter end. To me, they are enduring symbols of peace in a world that has so little of it.

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Summary: we are Witnesess
Review: The book I read was we are Witnesses by Jacob Bias. The book is about five teenagers who lived and died in the Holocaust. I liked this book because I interacted with how kids my age as Jews had to deal with the Holocaust. The teens in this book had to hide and live there lives as people in attics or camps. They were driven out of their homes most belongings left behind. Some of their family were taken away like there dad or mom. Even in hiding some were robbed, not only the families in this book went through this but all the Jews who lived around Europe during the holocaust. Some Jews survived the holocaust but millions of Jews died and in this story you read about how these teens had to deal with it.

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Summary: it was alright
Review: this book was extremly sad, howerver my attention was not totally captured. the people who wrote these diaries did not seem to know what was going on outside there ghettos, so did not give information about that. It did however say how teens must have felt.