NEW BOOKS: Winter 2006/2007

Return to Auschwitz

Kitty Hart-Moxon

New, updated edition with full index

Kitty Hart-Moxon was just twelve years old at the outbreak of the Second World War and fifteen when she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz.  Amazingly, she managed to survive the daily terror that she faced, and was eventually freed from Salzwedel camp by American troops in 1945.  Return to Auschwitz is an eyewitness account of Kitty’s experiences, telling of the calculated humiliation of camp inmates, the constant hunger, the ruthless SS guards, and the regular deportations to the gas chambers of millions of Jews.  Remarkably, it also tells of Kitty’s struggle for survival – and her return many years later to the site of her persecution.

“A heroic story of survival, moving in its compassion”

Daily Express

254pp., paperback

Price: £7.50

If The Stars Could Only Speak

Batsheva Dagan

Translated by Ziona Schaffer

Illustrations by Avi Katz

A moving and sensitively written children’s book by Holocaust survivor and educationalist Batsheva Dagan.  If The Stars Could Only Speak tells the story of a Jewish mother and her children torn apart – but eventually reunited – by the events of the Holocaust.  Specially written for use in schools with children aged ten upwards and an excellent introduction to the difficult issues of the Holocaust.

“The children were enthralled by the story and great discussions followed around the characters – prisoners and perpetrators... Each child could access and understand the pain and challenges of the victims...

I shall definitely use this book each time when Year 6 try to make sense of the atrocity which was the Holocaust.”

Jackie Lunan, Year 6 teacher, St. John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School, Bradford

24 pp., hardback

We Survived

Genocide in Rwanda: 28 Personal Testimonies

Edited by Wendy Whitworth

In association with Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda

These personal testimonies of survivors of the Rwandan genocide remind us above all that the cost of genocide is a human one.  Those who share their painful stories with us are some of the few who slipped through the net of total destruction in Rwanda.  They were ordinary people, caught up in extraordinary circumstances.  Years later, the void of loss is not filled, but they look ahead to the future and strive towards unity and reconciliation.

“These moving accounts by survivors of the Rwandan genocide… should be read by everyone.  Each one reminds us intensely of the human loss from genocide – men, women and children who are of equal value to people anywhere else, but were not considered important enough to be saved.”

Lt Gen the Hon. Roméo A. Dallaire, Senator, Commander of UN forces in Rwanda, 1994

279 pp., paperback

Price: £10.00