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Hdi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hdi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened.… (más)
As a book this isn't particularly satisfying - each chapter is the answer to a question ("What was it like having your period at a camp?" "Do you hate the Germans?") and all are maybe 200-500 words, so it's not anything to immerse oneself in. That said, as more of a coffee table book/bit of light reading it's interesting information.
I'd likely recommend readers look to more cohesive holocaust memoirs, unless some of the specific questions are interesting to them! ( )
This is an amazing book that should go down in history along with Anne Frank's. It's a quick read consisting entirely of questions and answers about what it was like to live in and survive the Holocaust. With few Holocaust survivors remaining, fascism and anti-Semitism on the rise, and Holocaust denialism increasing, this is an incredibly important read. I can't recommend it enough. Hedi's answers are honest and straightforward while still remaining eloquent and measured. ( )
Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust is an important book that everyone should read. Having a first-hand account of questions that people may be scared to actually ask is invaluable. I could see this book being a good companion to studying World War II and the Holocaust in school, particularly because the answers are written in an approachable way. ( )
This is a non-fiction work written by holocaust survivor Hedi Fried. She collected questions she was asked at lectures along with her answers. A Table of Contents is included at the beginning that lists all of the questions. Fried's approach is direct and reflects different aspects of her experiences. This would make a good companion to any study of WWII and the people effected by the war. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For all the young people around the world
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Life teaches us that everything can change in a moment, and you never know beforehand whether the change is going to lead to something better or worse.
The aim of this book is to teach us to avoid historical mistakes. I hope that it can make everyone who reads it see that we are predestined to step into the role of either perpetrator or bystander. As individuals, we have a will and a responsibility, and only by taking that responsibility can we avoid history repeating itself once again.
One of the lessons of the Holocaust is this: never get used to injustice.
Injustices must be nipped in the bud.
"Auschwitz was another planet. Time passed on a different scale than here on Earth. No children were born there, and no one died a natural death. Parents had no children, children had no parents." (Yehiel De Nur)
During the Second World War, the word “genocide” did not exist, neither in my own nor in anyone else’s vocabulary. It only became clear to me that widespread killing was taking place when I found myself in Auschwitz. Before that, not many understood that this was not just the killing of certain individuals, that it encompassed an entire people who were to be wiped off the face of the earth.
"We will only reach our goal when we are brave enough to laugh as we destroy and ruin that which was once holy to us, such tradition, education, friendship, and human affection." (Goebbels, “Die Zweite Revolution”)
...I can see this pattern today too. People are empathetic; they want to help, to share their abundance, but as soon as it becomes a matter of making sacrifices, sharing in the narrower sense, or giving up one’s time, it becomes more difficult.
We learned that there is no paradise on earth. In Sweden, like in other countries, some things are good, others bad.
If no one tells the story of the Holocaust, it will be forgotten, and what is forgotten may easily be repeated.
I see the same egotism and irresponsibility that existed in the beginning of the 1930s, but even stronger.
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.” (the German Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller)
Our revenge is that we, who were supposed to be exterminated, still live and have new families.
The most difficult thing (about aging) is learning to accept the slow loss of one’s abilities.
It becomes increasingly important to meet people; I, who have always been a lone wolf, now enjoy company.
I have realized that there is no explanation to why we are here on Earth. What matters is how we fill our days, so that those who come after us can carry on in a better world than the one we live in now.
Faith can be helpful on life’s journey, regardless of one’s religion. The danger appears when it goes too far and man gets into his head that everyone must share his faith. That is when faith turned into fundamentalism, and the original commandment of love has been turned into a commandment of hate.
I don’t believe that God can be in heaven and watch over each and every one of us, telling us how we should act. God is found deep inside us, in the moral compass that helps us solve life’s problems.
...all human beings are alike.
No one should have power over another, neither money or ethnicity must be a reason to treat someone badly.
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Hdi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hdi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened.
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