Run and Hide
How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust
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Publisher Description
A gripping nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. From the Sibert Honor and YALSA Award–winning creator behind The Unwanted, Drowned City, and others.
In the tightening grip of Hitler’s power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War.
Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and families, as they escaped certain horror. Some children flee to England by train. Others are hidden from Nazis, sometimes in plain sight. Some are secreted away in attics and farmhouses. Still others make miraculous escapes, cresting over the snow-covered Pyrenees mountains to safety.
Acclaimed nonfiction storyteller Don Brown brings his expertise for journalistic reporting to the deeply felt personal narratives of Jewish children who survived against overwhelming odds.
Read more books by Don Brown:
83 Days in Mariupol: A War DiaryIn the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 AttacksFever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brown (83 Days in Mariupol) chronicles standout stories of children who managed to escape harrowing circumstances during the Holocaust in this hard-hitting graphic novel. In spare, piercing text and kinetic, thin-lined illustrations, Brown employs meticulously documented firsthand survivor accounts to portray myriad individual experiences. Muted washes of color convey a brief history of the beginnings of the Holocaust, focusing on the sinister, oppressive atmosphere of the period and offering insight into the violence and manipulation that Hitler levied in his rise into power. A judicious use of accent hues, including bold, violent reds and soothing mellow yellows, heightens the drama. Most prominent are recollections of the historic Kindertransport, a program through which families who could afford to sent nearly 10,000 children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig to the United Kingdom. Lesser-known stories feature throughout, such as brothers Jack and Joe evading a roundup by hiding in their family's barn, and blond-haired, blue-eyed 13-year-old Rose's mother persuading her to pretend to be a Polish citizen while she herself is deported to a concentration camp. Though Brown does not shy away from the reality that more than a million children died, through these true and deftly told experiences, he offers hope amid the devastation. Historical and source notes and a bibliography conclude. Ages 13–up.
