Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust

A vital, award-winning introduction to the Holocaust, with photos and documents from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Drawing on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's large collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories, this book tells the story of the Holocaust and how it affected the daily lives of innocent people throughout Europe. Excerpts from 'identity cards' that are part of the Museum's exhibit focus on specific young people whose worlds were turned upside down when they became trapped under Nazi rule. Many of these young people never had the chance to grow up. One and a half million of the victims were children and teenagers--the great majority of them Jewish children but also tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsy) children, disabled children, and Polish Catholic children. Like their parents, they were singled out not for anything they had done, but simply because the Nazis considered them inferior.

Those who survived to become adults passed on the stories of relatives and friends who had been killed, with the hope that the terrible crimes of the Holocaust would never be forgotten or repeated. The powerful stories and images in this book are presented with the same hope. Only by learning about the Holocaust will we be able to tell the victims we remember.


Author: Susan D. Bachrach
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/03/1994
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 10.99h x 8.56w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780316074841
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.7
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 11841 / Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/1994 pg. 110
Kirkus Review - Children 11/15/1994 pg. 1522
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1994 pg. 159 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/15/1995 pg. 860
ALA Best Books Young Adults 04/01/1995 pg. 1399
ALA Notable Children's Books 04/01/1995 pg. 1411

About the Author
Susan D. Bachrach is a staff historian in the Exhibitions Department at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives with her husband and their two children in Washington, D.C.