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Author Kraus, Otto B., 1921-2000, author.

Title The children's block : a novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz survivor / Otto Kraus.

Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2009993~S1
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Description xiii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all 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.
Original Version Originally published: Tel Aviv : Yaron Golan, 1994, under title: Painted wall.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Fiction.
Internment camp inmates -- Fiction.
Jewish children -- Fiction.
Poland -- Fiction.
Genre Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781643133287
1643133284
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