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Book SynopsisA rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child’s eyes Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him,
Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement,
Childhood stands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as
The Diary of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel’s
Night, and
Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Engl
