Once Felix lived in an orphanage. It was 1942, in Poland, and Felix left the orphanage to find his parents.
Then Felix and his friend Zelda lived with a kind woman, but that didn’t mean everything was all good.
Now Felix is a grandfather and there are still dangers to be faced.
This series by Morris Gleitzman doesn’t hold any punches or sugarcoat the horrors inflicted on the Jewish people during WWII not only by the NAZI’s, but by their own countrymen. It made one look into one’s soul and wonder: What would I do? How would I act? I also found myself asking the unanswerable question – why? How could anyone do anything like that? How can one treat children like that?
I read the whole series one right after another. I’ve now discovered their is a fourth book called ‘After’ which I will be looking for (probably right after I finish this post). I highly recommend this for schools, eighth grade and up. Eight grade is when they cover the Holocaust so it will fit with that, but, teachers, read the books first.
It’s sad to note that while this book is about WWII, it fits in today with ISIS and other extremists who target people of another religion.
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