The author of the selection - the participant of the "Women's League" of the Russian Jewish Congress (rivers)
From January 18 to January 31, 2021, the annual - already seventh - "Week of Memory" will be held in Russia. This is a cycle of memorial and educational events dedicated to the International Day of Memory of the Holocaust Victims on January 27.
They say stories about the Holocaust - not for children. Today we will dispel this myth, offering a list of five books that carefully and neatly tell children about the biggest tragedy of humanity that happened in the 20th century.
Mouse.Posted by: Art Spigelman
Art Spigelman wrote the story, which became the classics of works about the Holocaust. Published in the form of a graphic novel (comic), history tells about the life of the author's family during the Second World War.
Representatives of various nationalities are depicted in the novel in the form of animals: Germans - cats, Poles - pigs, and Jews are mice, which gave the name of the work.
Mouse became the first graphic novel who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
How Hitler stole a pink rabbitPosted by: Judith Kerr
This is the first book from the world famous trilogy of Judith Kerr, telling the history of the Jewish family, fled from Germany at the beginning of World War II.
Imagine that you have only nine, you live a common life, go to school, in the summer playing the ball, in the winter ride with friends on the sleigh. You do not pay attention to changes in the country, the political posters, foil on the streets, until you learn that, according to the new rules, some people have become dangerous to live in Germany, and one of these people is your father, and the person depicted on the posters belongs to Adolf Hitler, who will soon change the life of the whole of Europe.
The heroine of Roman, Nine-year-old Anna, suddenly discovers that everything is happening too quickly so that she can understand. Once her father disappears, and then her together with his brother Max in frightening secrets lead away from everything they know - houses, classmates and favorite toys.
When I'll come backAuthor: Jesik Bab Bunde
Illustrations: Peter Bergiting
Jesik Bab Bunde wrote an interesting and important book based on the stories of people who survived the Holocaust. Illustration of Peter Bergting made a book accessible to children, despite the complex theme.
Some of the heroes during the war were children and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families: how they survived what they lost, and how they continued to live, no matter what.
The story of the first person allows stories to affect each reader. The survivors describe the persecution of ghetto, hunger in concentration camps, mass murders in an incomprehensible scale occurring in death camps.
Boy in striped pajamasPosted by: John Boyne
Catastrophic events are difficult to understand, regardless of whether to fifteen or fifty. "The boy in striped pajamas," is an impressive story of an incredible friendship between the son of a Nazi officer and a boy in a concentration camp.
Having started reading, you will travel on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. And sooner or later, you and Bruno will find yourself at the fence dividing two worlds, in one of which is life, and in the other - only death.
Run, boy, runPosted by: Orpl Uri
This is a life-affirming story about a boy who survived the Holocaust. The eight-year hero is quite alone in Warsaw Ghetto. He runs into the countryside, where he spends the following years, hiding in the forest: at first the company of the same Jewish boys, and then alone at all, relying on the sympathy and generosity of farmers in the vicinity. Despite, it would seem that there would be a complete lack of chance: constant chase, execution attempts and even a loss of hand, the boy miraculously survives.
One night, running away from German soldiers, the boy faces face to face with her father. For several moments of the fleeting meeting, the father time to say a few words: "You must stay alive." These words will hold a little hero across the war.
As every year, the Russian Jewish Congress (Rivers), the Government of Moscow, the Center "Holocaust" and the Federal Agency for National Affairs (FADN) became the organizers of the "Memory of Memory-2021". Responding to the call of River and Fadn, most of the regions of Russia are preparing to conduct memorial, cultural and educational events dedicated to the topic of the Holocaust.
A complete program of events planned both in Moscow and in the regions, published on MemoryWeek.ru