What Was the Holocaust?

by Gail Herman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451533909
• ISBN13: 9780451533906
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7