Sachs was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. Recommended for high school students. This collection of a dozen tales conveys a range of messages about the Holocaust. The title story is about the dehumanization of concentration camp prisoners as they are forced by the Nazis to work to the brink of exhaustion. Those few who are not designated for gassing must carry the corpses to the burning piles.
Captive laborers rummage through the pockets of the dead and search for bits of decaying food.
The soldier dies unable to comprehend the desperate woman's act of vengeance. Recommended for junior high and high school students. This award-winning novel is based on Aranka Siegel's own childhood experiences growing up in Hungary from 1939 to 1944 when she and her family are transported to Auschwitz. At the tender ages of nine through fourteen, she experiences prejudice and discrimination, imprisonment in the ghetto, and finally the horrors of Auschwitz. This book probes some important issues, such as tolerance of other races, yet the excitement and danger make the story fast-paced and engrossing.