Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Unbury the secrets

Rubble: The Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elisa Boxer and Oksana Drachkovska

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The book Under the Rubble: The Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elisa Boxer and illustrator Oksana Drachkovska did not give me a warm and happy feeling. It gave me a cold and sad feeling. The theme is obvious by the title as we know what the Warsaw Ghetto was. Now, one would think that this is not a book for kids, and it is not for the very young or frankly overly sensitive. But when you know your child (or classroom) is ready, […]

During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, something grew

The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer

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The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer and illustrated by Alianna Rozentsveig was not what I expected. I think I assumed it would be a lot darker than it was, but oddly enough, it is a hopeful introduction to the subject and one that does offset the darkness of the situation and times.  Perhaps things are a bit more poetic than the actual events were (a teacher in Terezin risks her life to ask another prisoner (also risking […]

Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier Judith Geller, and more

Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust. by Elisa Boxer

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CBR15Passport  other format (memoir as fiction)   Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier (among others) she had many secrets (one had to do with a toy duck), and she would help save people’s lives. Gauthier was really Judith Geller, a Jewish teen who pretended to be a Christian social worker. She would deliver papers to other Jewish families to help them be safer in France, or even help them escape the country all together. She was part of the French Resistance, she would lose dozens of […]



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