Name: Friedrich
ISBN: 9780140322057

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Why This Clicks

A Quiet, Stark Reckoning

A spare, affecting story makes the human cost of Nazi rule painfully immediate.

Come here for

A child’s perspective on Germany in the early 1930s
A clear-eyed account of a Jewish family’s destruction

Expect

A simple, unsettling narrative
Loss and persecution treated with directness

Book Details

Authors: Hans Peter Richter
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: May 1, 1987
Format: Paperback
Theme: Holocaust Stories · Holocaust for Kids
Reading lane: Holocaust Stories

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The Classics
Holocaust Stories
Jewish Religious Stories

About This Book

"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."-- The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported....

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"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."-- The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported. For Friedrich was Jewish.