**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.