Why Do They Hate Me?: Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict

by Laurel Holliday

Book Overview

True stories... Real voices... "The day for deportation arrived. We knew our end was near." -- Janina Heshele, Poland From the centuries-old enmities of Northern Ireland, to the Holocaust and World... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671034545
• ISBN13: 9780671034542
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Really Good

This is an excellent book. If you are into the Holocuast I recomend this.... or really if your into word conflicts really. It starts out telling about kids caught up in the holocuast.... and if you are a history fanatic, you'll really get into it. Then it goes on to tell about the troubles in northeren Ireland, you know Protestants,, and Catholics. then it tells about the Ireali, Palestini conflicts. You get to see the conflicts through the eyes of children, and see how they feel about it. On the part about Ireland, some of the kids were like... does it matter....? Why do we hate them.... their people too....

Conflicts of World War II

After reading Why Do They Hate Me, I realized it was a goodbook. The book is based on stories about young Holocaust children whokept a diary before they were taken to a concentration camp. At one point on the book, a young girl mentions that her family owned an illegal radio set. My opinion on that is that it's wrong because all people were made to be equal. There are many stories about these children in the book. They explain how they couldn't go to their school they went to and other things they couldn't do because they were Jewish. This book is a good thing if you are learning about things from the Holocaust. My recommendations would be to all readers because you could always learn new things about history. END

Teaches People All About Racial and Religious Descrimination

This book was full of exerpts from the diaries of children in the middle of war, and contained essays, too. It shows privileged people who think they have a miserable life that there are children who go to school wondering if they will ever come home again. I would recommend this book to people of all ages and interests!

The Greatest!

I love this book. It has true stories about real kid'sstories in war. The stories are so sad with all the religousdiscrmination. It makes me feel that I take all things in life forgranted.

This Was Great!

This book was a great book! It's good for just reading and also for facts. I'm using it for a trem paper I have to do on the origins of conflict in Northern Ireland. It helped me alot. You can find out aboutThe Holocaust and World War 2, "The Troubles"in Noprthern Ireland, and The Isreli/Palestinian Confict. It was a great book. Allie