What was the Holocaust?
By: by Gail Herman ; illustrated by Jerry Hoare
Contributors: Hoare, Jerry, illustrator
Series: What was?; What was--?
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780451533906; 9780451533920
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Juvenile literature
Description: "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 events in history. Includes a letter from the editor and series creator, Jane O'Connor"--
Notes: Ages 8-12.

Includes bibliographical references (page 106).
Table of contents: title: What was the Holocaust?; title: Anti-Semitism; title: Adolf Hitler; title: The Nazis; title: Hitler in power; title: War!; title: In the Ghetto; title: Life in the Concentration Camps; title: The Final Solution; title: Fighting back; title: Freedom!  After; title: Timelines.