We Are Witnesses
Subtitle: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust (Edge Books)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: June 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780805037029
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Juvenile literature; Europe, Eastern; Children's 12-Up - Biography / Autobiography; World War, 1939-1945; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Jewish teenagers; History - Holocaust; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Holocaust; Children; Personal narratives; Biography
First sentence: The Nazis considered Poles subhuman and, after crushing the country "like a soft-boiled egg" in the fall of 1939, treated them with contempt.
Description: Jewish teenagers David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne all kept diaries and were all killed in Hitler's death camps. These are their stories, in their own words. Author Jacob Boas is a Holocaust survivor who was born in the same camp to which Anne Frank was sent. Includes a photo insert.