Tell ye your children: a book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933-1945

by Stéphane Bruchfeld, Paul A. Levine

This book describes what human beings are capable of doing to other human beings when democratic values have been destroyed and replaced by an ideology advocating intolerance, hate and violence. The book presents the facts about the Holocaust and attempts to explain how the unimaginable became reality.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, War, World War II

109 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[ambyr · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up for free while I was visiting the Stockholm Synagogue in Sweden a while back. It's a well-done production, using photos and diary excerpts to try to bring the six million dead into focus as individual rather than collective tragedies. As a grandchild of survivors I don't particularly need the Holocaust humanized for me; I grew up with these sorts of stories as my daily bread. But I'm glad the books are being written for those who do. And I did learn things about the Swedish role in the war that I hadn't known before, as none of my family connections are with the Nordic states.

(I still need to look up the Jewish refugees who are namechecked as having "contributed to post-war Sweden": Harry Schein, Georg Riedel, Joachim Israel, and Erwin Leiser. These are listed with no further context, so I assume they're more famous names in Sweden?)

[Filomena Vitorino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este livro dá-nos uma perspectiva cronológica dos eventos que levaram à "solução final", os fundamentos para as ideologias racistas, anti semitismo, biologia racial...
Nem sempre é fácil ler o que aconteceu, mas é importante saber para que não seja esquecido.
O livro está disponível para downolad no site https://www.levandehistoria.se/

[mick]

my history teacher let me borrow this book from him. very informative, extremely heartbreaking.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tell Ye Your Children: A Book About The Holocaust In Europe 1933-1945 is by The Living History Forum and Stephane Bruchfeld and Paul S. Levine. “This book was commissioned by the Swedish Government as part of its education program.” It is intended as an overview of the Holocaust to provide parents information to begin talking to their children about this event in history. However, it is only a starting point as the history of the Holocaust is so vast and so confusing to many. In creating this book, the authors know that the numbers of five or six million or more is something that cannot be totally understood; but putting a face to some of those numbers makes the information more real. Therefore, they have included individual stories of victims, perpetrators, rescuers, and survivors throughout the book to personalize the history.
The book is not designed for use by children or even middle school students; but for adults and high school students to tive them an overview of the event. It is written in such a way that most people could understand it.

[Julie]

This book is available free for download in Swedish, English, Finnish, Persian, Spanish, Turkish, and Arabic. It was given out freely to visitors of the Jewish Museum in Stockholm. The copies in English had all been given out, so I picked up one in Swedish, which I hope to read some day.

[Emma Jegers]

Tänker inte sätta en rating på denna då det känns okänsligt och verklighetsfrånvänt.
Jag visste redan det mesta som stod i denna, ändå är det obegripligt och det finns MÅNGA som inte vet. Jag håller med om titeln. Jag hatar världen som låtit detta hända och som fortfarande nästan 100 ÅR senare låter detta hända. Se palenstina tex…

Detta är något som alla ska veta om, man ska bli obekväm. Man ska må illa när man lär sig om det. För det är så vedervärdigt att något sånt här har hänt att det går inte att sätta ord på det.
Jag är mållös. Vila i frid räcker inte, men det är det enda jag kan säga🕊️

[Ana-Maria Bujor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even if I have read quite a bit about the topic, there still was plenty of new information, as well as touching stories, accounts, documents and photographs. Great educational tool for adults, too graphic for children as far as I would assess.

[Helen]

Så viktig. Får inte glömma.

[Reyna Cojab · Rating 5 out of 5]

Graphic images that the whole world has to see... tell your children about the Holocaust #NeverAgain

[Lena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read this book, take in all the horrors of the Holocaust and vow to never let anything like this happen ever again.

[Francisca Martins Gonzales · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muito bem estruturado

[Clara :) Lyche · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a lot from this book. It had a good context and everything. I was pretty hard to get through tho.

[Maja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly hard to read, but even more so important.

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

As horrendous as it is important, excellent walk through with time line and photos. Everyone should read this every few years.

[Ana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este livro trata-se de uma obra documental de vários factos que se passaram sobre o Holocausto, por toda a Europa. E tem a singularidade de contar um pouco como é que em Portugal se viveu esse tempo e como o nosso País reagiu à vaga de refugiados judeus que fugiam do terror que se vivia pela Europa fora.
Fiquei sem palavras, principalmente ao me aperceber do pequenino interesse mostrado por Salazar em salvar estas pessoas, tentando sempre ter como lema a neutralidade do nosso País, comparando com as grandes atitudes que a Suécia (país também neutro na guerra) teve para com estas mesmas pessoas.
Os relatos do terror dos campos de concentração e dos planos cálculados de morte em massa de varias classes de pessoas (judeus, ciganos, pessoas portadoras de deficiência física ou mental e homossexuais, entre outros) eu já conhecia, mas vale sempre a pena relembrar.
Mas a preciosidade deste livro é desmistificar algumas ideias que ficaram erradamente presentes na mente das pessoas, tais como: que os judeus não deram luta. Nesta obra magnifíca, ficamos a saber que existiram tentativas de rebelião entre os judeus nos guetos, e que no seio do próprio povo alemão houve a formação de vários grupos anti-regime que tentaram lutar contra as ideologias nacional-socialistas de Hitler.
E as ilustrações, citações e curiosidades que o livro traz são demasiado valiosas para não serem vistas e lidas. Aconselho vivamente a que se desloquem às vossas bibliotecas e vejam esta obra impressionante.

[Malin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone at school was given a copy of this book for free when it was released.
It tells of the horrific events during the WWII in a good, educational way.

It's an important book and we all have to keep remembering and talk about what happened after the last survivors are gone. That's why this book should be handed down from generation to generation, to never forget.