Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor / Robert Waisman, with Susan McClelland.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781547606009
- 1547606002
- Waisman, Robert, 1931- -- Juvenile literature
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature
- Ex-concentration camp inmates -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Child concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jews -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
- Holocaust survivors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish refugees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Juvenile literature
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Main Library | Children's Biography | WAISMAN, R. W143 | Available | 33111010517783 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was--let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other boys, including Elie Wiesel, these teens were dubbed "The Buchenwald Boys." They were angry at the world for their abuse, and turned to violence: stealing, fighting, and struggling for power. Everything changed for Romek and the other boys when Albert Einstein and Rabbi Herschel Schacter brought them to a home for rehabilitation
Romek Wajsman, now Robbie Waisman, humanitarian and Canadian governor general award recipient, shares his remarkable story of transforming pain into resiliency and overcoming incredible loss to find incredible joy.
Finalist for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2022 the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"-- Provided by publisher.