Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”

Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust : Young Reader’s Edition by Hedi Fried

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Four main things stand out for me from reading Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust : Young Reader’s Edition. The first, it took the author, Hedi Fried, a lifetime to heal and process her experiences; the second, history has repeated itself, and third, while I knew what genocide meant (there is also a glossary that gives a technical definition) it was broken down by etymology: genos: people and cide: murder, or People Murder. But perhaps the big takeaway from this translation by Alice E. Olsson […]

“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemöller

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hedi Fried

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#cbrbingo11 #history There was this finished copy of Hedi Fried’s Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust sitting among the reader copies.  It was short. It had a pleasant cover. I was hoping it would not be too dry or too academic. Nonfiction can be a drawn out with the author trying to get all their points across and, even, converting you to their way of thinking. And how would these questions work? What it turned out is an interesting way to teach the Holocaust. […]



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