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Title: Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl ISBN: 0-380-73188-6 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: WWII as seen through the eyes of a child.
Comment: Though this story is told as Marion saw it as a young child, it nevertheless remains a powerful and moving documentary of the most devastating war our planet has ever known.
This book is also a very good WWII primer. It would be required reading for a class entitled "WWII 101".
Marion Blumenthal spent her early childhood in Hoya, Germany with her brother and parents. They were a happy, prosperous Jewish family who owned a successful shoe retail business. But Marion's safe, secure world was shattered by the rise of the Third Reich in Germany. The Nazis, the dominant political party of the Third Reich, implemented their radical racial attacks against Jews, Gypsies, Slavics, Homosexuals, Communists, and whomever else was seen as a threat to Aryan purity. This meant the end of life as Marion knew it. Each passing day was a struggle to stay alive and out of the Nazis' clutches.
Despite their best efforts, the Blumenthal family fell prey to the Nazis. They eventually landed in Westerbork, a camp from which the prisoners where shipped to their deaths in places such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. The Blumenthals were transferred to Belsen, and despite their bleak future, Marion clung tenaciously to the hope that better times would come for her and her family. To bolster her and their spirits, she set about collecting four perfectly-shaped pebbles from the grounds of the camp. This was her metaphor for her family which, hopefully, would remain as one till the end of the war.
As the war dwindled to a close and Germany suffered one defeat after another, camp prisoners were shuttled along the remains of the Germain railways as the Nazis tried to desperately conceal the evils they had commited in the abandoned camps. Just when it seemed the war would drag on forever, Marion, her family, and their fellow prisoners were intercepted and liberated by Russian troops.
A beautiful story of inspiration, courage, and keeping a positive attitude even in the most dire of circumstances.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely evocative and moving
Comment: As a junior high reading teacher and being extremely interested in survivors of the Holocaust, I was thrilled to read this book. Students will readily relate to this book. The author was 5 year younger than Anne Frank, her family moved to Amsterdam from Germany when she was a small child, she went to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen. The similarities are remarkable. Marion Lazan is an exceptional writer and speaker. After reading her book, we were fortunate enough to have her as a speaker. She is marvelous. This book is a must. Pamela Blevins
Rating: 5
Summary: Moving story from a child's point of view
Comment: "Four Perfect Pebbles" by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan, tells the story of young Marion's life in Hoya Germany during the rise of the Nazis. The story goes from Holland to Bergan-Belsen where the Blumenthal family ends up. And then after the war in the United States.
While this is book for the younger reader, this is a book that can be enjoyed by anyone at any age. Truly this book should not be missed.
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Title: I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson ISBN: 0689823959 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender ISBN: 068981321X Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas ISBN: 059084475X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Daniel's Story by Carol Matas ISBN: 0590465880 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang, Patricia Crampton ISBN: 014130104X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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