Bibliograph

The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz, a true story retold for young readers, Jeremy Dronfield

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The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz, a true story retold for young readers, Jeremy Dronfield

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jeremy Dronfield

Sub title

a true story retold for young readers

Summary

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

Target audience

adolescent

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