Return to Auschwitz (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kitty Hart
- First Published: 1981
- Time of Work: 1939–1945
- Setting: Poland, Germany, and England
- Principal Characters: Kitty Hart, Kitty’s mother, Kitty’s father, Ralph
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Social action, Family or family life, Adolescence, Autobiography, World War II, Death or dying, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Concentration camps, Persecution
- Locales: England, Germany, Poland
Form and Content
In Return to Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story of a Girl Who Survived the Holocaust, Kitty Hart not only gives a personal view of the plight of Jews under Adolf Hitler’s regime but also provides a historical outlook on the events that took place leading up to and during World War II. She relates how she and her family struggled to evade the Nazis until she and her mother were captured and sent to Auschwitz. Hart describes her experiences through a series of twelve personal narratives, each of which makes up a chapter in the book and focuses on a...
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