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Kacer, Kathy

The Magician of Auschwitz

32 pp. | Second Story | January, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-927583-46-3 $18.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Gillian Newland. In a fictionalization of a true story, young Auschwitz inmate Werner is befriended and sustained by his bunkmate Herr Levin, a magician. Dark sepia and charcoal illustrations capture the concentration camp's bleakness, with playing cards and Nazi armbands the only flashes of color. Werner's unrealistically wide-eyed perspective offers a gentle entrance to Holocaust history. Appended notes add more historical information.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

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