What Was the Holocaust?

A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable eventΓÇöthe Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen,with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death campsΓÇösix million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Naziswhose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish lawsthen to ghettos all over Eastern Europeand ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readablewell-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.