The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers / Jeremy Dronfield.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: 373 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780063236172
- 0063236176
- Kleinmann, Gustav, 1891-1976 -- Juvenile literature
- Kleinmann, Fritz, 1923- -- Juvenile literature
- Fathers and sons -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 940.5318 D786 | Available | 33111011047491 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.
Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt, his little brother, was eight. Under Hitler's brutal regime, their Austrian-Jewish family of six was cruelly torn apart.
Taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Fritz and his Papa, Gustav, underwent hard labor and starvation. Meanwhile, Kurt made the difficult voyage, all alone, to America, to escape the war.
When Papa was ordered to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, Fritz--desperate not to lose his beloved father--insisted he must go too. Together, they endured countless atrocities to survive.
Jeremy Dronfield authentically and accurately captures this family tale of bravery, love, hope, and survival with the help of extensive research and primary sources like Gustav's diary and interviews with family members. Maps, black-and-white photos, a timeline of events, a glossary, and more are included.
Adaptation of the adult narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more section containing a message from Kurt Kleinmann, family photographs, and afterword.
"Originally published, in slightly different form, as The Stone Crusher in 2018 by Chicago Review Press."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.