Gr 6 Up-This unique and instructive treatment discusses the one-and-a-half million young Jewish victims of the genocide (and the murder of other young people who belonged to minority groups); the German youth brainwashed and exploited by Hitler's totalitarian regime; and, most tellingly, the children of survivors and of their Nazi oppressors and supporters. Supplementing his clear narrative with full-page, black-and-white historical photos, Gottfried traces the sad history of how the non-Jewish population in Nazi-occupied countries (especially in France, Poland, and Hungary) aided their occupiers in killing Jews-especially the young and infirm. (He pointedly excludes Denmark and Bulgaria from this list because the political leaders of both countries refused to cooperate with the Nazis.
