Perhaps she found the rest of the story too painful to write about. (And I was confused by the fact that so many of her charges disappeared, when that particular Aktion was meant only to target sick people and children under ten.) After the extensive detail of earlier, it was frustrating to have this sudden nothing. You never learn the ultimate fate of any of the children or how the author herself managed to survive the war. And at the end, the orphanage is liquidated and the author finds a few survivors hiding here and there. Since I already know a lot about the Lodz Ghetto, that's okay, but to someone who doesn't know much it would be, I think, confusing and frustrating. She fails to provide very much context to her stories. Also the one about a girl who donates blood to save her dying best friend, only to develop anemia and die herself not long afterward.īut I was very frustrated by the author's vagueness and the abruptness of the ending. The one about the non-Jewish girl who wound up in the ghetto and suffered the fate of the others as a direct result of her anti-Semetic parents' Jew-hunting is something I will remember forever. The author was a teacher/caregiver in the Lodz Ghetto orphanage at Marysin and chronicles the lives of a few of her young charges, all of them girls, mostly in their teens. Once is a 2005 childrens novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman.It is about a Jewish boy named Felix who lived in Poland and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage in which had stayed at for 3 years and 8 months.
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