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Based on extensive oral histories collected from child survivors, the book documents the experiences of young Jewish children during the Holocaust. It chronicles their initial encounters with anti‑Semitism and follows their forced labor in camps under Nazi rule.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Deborah Dwork
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