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Inge Auerbacher’s early life in Germany was ordinary and peaceful, until the Nazis’ rise in 1942 changed everything. She and her parents were arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. For three years, she witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, yet she and her family survived and were eventually liberated. Auerbacher’s personal narrative provides a clear, age‑appropriate account of the persecution of Jews and the realities of life in a concentration camp, helping young readers understand this critical historical event.
First publish date: October 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Inge Auerbacher
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