We, Two Boys by Aline Sax5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() 14 & up)īelial, Prince of Hell, makes his move on London in this trilogy closer. With the events of the Holocaust growing ever more remote with the passage of time, Sax gives modern readers an unrelenting, heart-rending insight into the hell that the Nazis created. ![]() Strzelecki’s pen, ink and black-and-white pencil illustrations graphically depict pain and despair as they accompany text printed on stark white or black backgrounds. Misha takes part in the doomed Warsaw Uprising and survives to tell the world of this last act of defiance. In short staccato sentences, he bears witness to the madness, telling it all, from the struggle to stay alive to the corpses in the streets to the beatings and executions. Sax gives voice to the fear and anger, hopelessness and terror through Misha, a fictional young teen who represents those who really lived and died there. Finally, relocations to the concentration camps emptied the ghetto. Then thousands were moved to the overcrowded ghetto, where they died of epidemics and starvation. Jews were prevented from using public transportation, doing business or attending schools. When the Nazis took Warsaw in 1939, they immediately initiated their separate war against the Jews in an ever-worsening web of destruction. The sights, sounds and smells of the Warsaw ghetto assail readers’ senses in a raw, brutal telling of the unimaginable horror of that time and that place. ![]()
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