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Author:

Kraus, Ota B., 1921-

Title:

The children's block / Otto B Kraus.

Publisher:

Ebury Pressan imprint of Ebury Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 274 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--Fiction.
Jewish children--Fiction.
Poland--Fiction.

Other Titles:

Painted wall.

Notes:

First published as Smoke is my brother in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere as The painted wall in 1993.

Summary:

Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children's block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary...

ISBN:

1529105560
9781529105568

LCCN:

2019401547

Locations:

MIPA194 -- Alta Vista Public Library (Alta Vista)