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The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers

Title

The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers / Jeremy Dronfield.

Author

Dronfield, Jeremy

Publication

New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
©2023

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Description

373 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.

Uniform Title

Stone crusher (Young readers version)

Alternative Title

Stone crusher (Young readers version)

Subject

Genre/Form

Juvenile works
Biographies
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.

Note

Young adult version of author's The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival. New York: Harper, 2020.
Adult version originally published, in slightly different form, as The stone crusher. Chicago Review Press, 2018.
Includes "What happened after" section with family photographs, timeline of events, author's note to parents and teachers, and glossary.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334).

Audience (note)

Ages 10 and up.

Contents

Introduction -- Say yes! -- Shabbos -- The monster -- The connection and the exclusion -- Night of broken glass -- The journey -- The little camp -- The stone crusher -- A feeling of hope -- The road to life -- The new world -- Child of fortune -- The final solution -- Let's all fight! -- A town called Auschwitz -- The day will come when we're free -- A man far from home -- The resistance -- A trusted friend -- Fighting back -- A desperate plan -- The death march -- The end of the world -- They all fought -- The journey back -- What happened after -- Timeline of events -- Author's note to parents and teachers.

Call Number

JFD 24-309

ISBN

9780063236172
0063236176

LCCN

2022941872

OCLC

1311951905

Author

Dronfield, Jeremy, author.

Title

The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers / Jeremy Dronfield.

Publisher

New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334).

Audience

Ages 10 and up. Harper.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Adaptation of (work): Dronfield, Jeremy. Stone crusher.

Research Call Number

JFD 24-309

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