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Title: Don't Forget by Pat Lakin, Ted Rand, Patricia Lakin ISBN: 0-689-84809-9 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

Rating: 2
Summary: It would be better with more historical accuracy
Comment: While I agree that this book touches on the subject of the holocaust nicely, I am upset by the historical problems with the book. IMO, Patricia Lakin does not know much holocaust history, and while the points are minor, they undermine the attempt to teach about the holocaust by being inaccurate.

The three things that really stand out are:

1) the numbers chosen for the couple to have on their arms are much too low. They are 60,000 and 80,000. If they were in Auschwitz that would have made them Polish Jews, and it would have been *very* unlikely that two people married to each other would have both survived (which is what the story implies if not says outright). If they were in another camp with fewer prisoners, they would still have been from earlier in the war. Many survivors have numbers in the 180,000 type range. [I "improved" my copy of the book by drawing in ones.]

2) the mention of the baking pan being the one the woman used before the war also strains credulity. People who escaped sometimes managed to regain a few personal possessions, but for the most part, survivors did not have any personal items after the war. And to have managed to get a baking pan back, when both the man and woman were in the camp seems highly unlikely.

3) there are family pictures in the house. This book is supposed to be from right after the war, and these are a lot of family pictures. Most people, especially those in camps, did not have pictures of their families which survived the war. There is no need for this to be an issue in the book, as the pictures would have been fine if they were of fruits or scenery.

While it might be possible for a single couple to have survived years in the camps, regained their personal possessions and brought them to the States, it is not likely and seems to show that this couple went someplace bad, but nothing more.

IMO, people who write or illustrate books on such sensitive topics should knowing much more about the subject.