What Was the Holocaust?

What Was the Holocaust?By: Gail Herman, Who HQ Illustrator: Jerry Hoare Series: What Was? A thoughtful and age appropriate introduction to an unimaginable eventthe Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death campssix million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti Semitism led first to humiliating anti Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern

By: Gail Herman, Who HQ | Illustrator:  Jerry Hoare | Series: What Was? 

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A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history.

This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers.