City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Voices from the Second World War, witnesses share their stories with the children of today

Label
Voices from the Second World War, witnesses share their stories with the children of today
Language
eng
Illustrations
portraitsillustrationsfacsimiles
Index
index present
Intended audience
Age 9-11 years
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Voices from the Second World War
Sub title
witnesses share their stories with the children of today
Summary
A collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War. Contributors include a rear gunner who took part in sixty bombing raids, a Jewish woman who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz, a Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children by setting up the Kindertransport program from Czechoslovakia. Many of the interviews were conducted by children, and the book is being published in association with award-winning children's newspaper First News
Target audience
juvenile
Classification

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