We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

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Overview

We are the bleeding clouds, and from the seas of blood have we come...We are witnesses...we were brought into being by an inferno of suffering; and we are a sign of peace to you. —Moshe Ze'ev Flinker, Age 17

On the eve of Passover, 1944, shortly after he wrote these words, Moshe and his family were betrayed to the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. Like the other four diarists in this book, he did not survive the war. But their words did. Written in the midst of "an inferno of suffering," these fragile yet powerful records are a "sign of peace" to all of us.

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Overview

We are the bleeding clouds, and from the seas of blood have we come...We are witnesses...we were brought into being by an inferno of suffering; and we are a sign of peace to you. —Moshe Ze'ev Flinker, Age 17

On the eve of Passover, 1944, shortly after he wrote these words, Moshe and his family were betrayed to the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. Like the other four diarists in this book, he did not survive the war. But their words did. Written in the midst of "an inferno of suffering," these fragile yet powerful records are a "sign of peace" to all of us.

Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible. We see David Rubinowicz struggling against fear and terror in Poland. Yitzhak Rudashevski in Lithuania shows us how Jews clung to culture, to learning, and to hope, until there was no hope at all. In Belgium, Moshe is the voice of religion, constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy. Finally, in Hungary, Eva Heyman demonstrates the unquenchable hunger for life that sustained her until the very last moment. Yet We Are Witnesses is not just about any single victim in the Holocaust.

Author Jacob Boas, who was born in the same camp to which Anne Frank was sent, ends by discussing her famous diary. Looking back at the other four through Anne, and at Anne with fresh eyes after the others, we see the largest truth they all left for us: Hitler could kill millions, but he could not destroy the human spirit. These stark accounts of how five young people faced the worst of human evil are a testament, and an inspiration, to the best in the human soul.

Jewish teenagers David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne all kept diaries and were all killed in Hitler's death camps. These are their stories, in their own words. Author Jacob Boas is a Holocaust survivor who was born in the same camp to which Anne Frank was sent. Includes a photo insert.

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Jewish Book World
Boas, a Holocaust survivor, incorporates his own commentary using excerpts from each diary to personalize history and to compare individual experiences. He remarks that Anne Frank's experience of hiding with her family in relative comfort and care with loving gentiles was atypical. Although only some of the diaries end in mid-sentence, interrupted by the ultimate horror, all exhibit a strain of idealism throughout.
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Born in 1943 in the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland, Boas here brilliantly unfolds the history of the Holocaust through poignant excerpts from five teenagers' wartime diaries, enhanced with skillful commentary. Predictably, Anne Frank turns up, in the final section, but, as Boas points out, ``alongside the other four diaries, Anne's looks different than when you read it by itself as the sole voice of the Holocaust.'' By the time readers encounter Anne Frank, they will have met Jewish teenagers trapped in equally tragic but even more violent circumstances in various parts of Europe, from a small Polish village to the Vilna ghetto to Brussels and Hungary. The young writers relay their hopes and fears even as they chronicle the disintegration of their daily lives. One is religious, another politically active, others wrapped up in their families-Boas points out each writer's sensitivities as he explains the terrible traps into which the individual teenagers fall. In exploring their fates, he impresses upon the reader their vitality, and, by extension, implies the enormity of the Holocaust's losses. Ages 12-up. (June)
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From varied backgrounds, different countries, diverse religious outlooks and assorted experiences, the voices of five youngsters clearly describe how they coped with the horrible sufferings which preceded their murder. David Rubinowicz, 13, Poland, chronicled his family's hopeless slide from independent dairy keepers to dispossessed refugees crammed into a ghetto, slowly crushed by the Nazi machine, death-marched to Treblinka and gassed. Yitzhak Rudashevski, 13, Lithuania, extolled the glories of learning, hoped the Russians and socialism would save the Jews, detailed the incredible struggle to maintain schools and culture in the ghetto, turned partisan at 14 to avoid "being led like sheep to the slaughter," but was rounded up and killed anyway. Moshe Flinker, a devout Polish Jew who survived two years of German occupation before fleeing into Belgium and "passing," filled his diary with poems, prayers and hope for redemption in the Promised Land but perished at 19 in Auschwitz. Eva Heyman-beautiful, wealthy, pampered, assimilated, bursting with love for living-wrote from Hungary for only nine months in her 13th-birthday present diary before she was deported to Auschwitz, where Mengele himself selected her for the crematorium. This searing book ends with excerpts from the diary of Anne Frank and contrasts her relatively secure, though imprisoned, two years and her unshakable faith in the goodness of people with the main themes of her contemporaries.
Hazel Rochman
% This is a multi-book review: SEE also the title "Parallel Journeys". %% Gr. 712. Fifty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, these personal accounts bear powerful witness to what it was like to be young at the time of the Nazis They grew up a few miles apart in Nazi Germany. Helen Waterford was Jewish; Alfons Heck was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. In alternating chapters, Ayer sets the personal narratives of these two Germans against the general history of the rise of Hitler, the course of World War II, and the horror of the Holocaust. While Helen was in hiding, Alfons was a fanatic believer in the Master Race. While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for Auschwitz, he was a teenage commander of frontline troops, ready to fight and die for the glory of Hitler and the Fatherland. Their postwar experiences in the U.S. are just as compelling: Helen trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered self; Alfons awakening to what he'd been part of, determined now to warn the world about it ("All of us, perhaps unknowingly, had looked the other way, preferring not to know the truth" ). Occasionally the narrative's organization is confusing, especially the constant switching from Ayer's general history to the first-person narratives. But the stark contrasts between the Jewish and the Nazi experiences are dramatic and thought provoking. Both Germans speak quietly and honestly, without hand-wringing, cover-up, or self-pity. Readers will want to talk about the questions raised: What would I have done? Could it happen again Born in 1943 in a Nazi camp, Boas is a Holocaust survivor. He draws on the diaries of Jewish teenagers to tell what happened to ordinary families as they were crowded into the ghettos, persecuted, and murdered. Each of the diaries breaks off suddenly, sometimes in mid-sentence. David Rubinowicz, the son of a dairyman in the Polish countryside, started keeping a journal when he was 12; he was gassed in Treblinka. Yitzhak Rudashevski, an ardent communist at 13, lived in Vilna; he wrote his diary in Yiddish; he describes people wild with terror. Moshe Flinker, an Orthodox Jew, pretends to be a Gentile in Brussels and asks what God can intend with such suffering. xe6 va Heyman, an assimilated Jew in Hungary, watches her grandmother go mad. All the teenagers mourn a special friend. Like Ayer, Boas incorporates his own commentary with excerpts from each diary to personalize the history and to compare the individual experiences. Boas also makes us think in a new way about Anne Frank's classic diary. He points out that Anne's experience was unusual: in hiding with her family and in being cared for by loving Gentiles, she had an easier time than most Jews holed up in the ghettos of Europe. Boas sees "the highest form of resistance" in Anne and all these young writers. Yet there's no comfort. The final words of Yitzhak's diary, "We may be fated for the worst," were true.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780590844758
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 11/28/1996
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 196
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 970L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.56 (d)

Meet the Author

Jacob Boas has a Ph.D. in modern European history and is the director of the Oregon Holocaust Research Center. He lives with his wife and three children in Beaverton, Oregon.

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  • Posted February 24, 2010

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    Powerful

    There's nothing else to say - just Powerful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 12, 2008

    Heart-Touching

    Despite the fact that there was a lot of commentary, this was a great book. It was heart touching and heart breaking to read these teenagers diaries. Reading some of the diary entries and quotes brought tears to my eyes. I was personally touched by all of the stories. The book makes me look at Anne's story in a whole new light as well. I wouldn't suggest this for an 8th grade class to read because understanding it means you have to dig deeper into the book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2005

    HARD TO UNDERSTAND!!!

    I normally love reading books about the Holocaust. This time it was very different. I started to read it and i had to read the first chapter about 3 or 4 times and i still dont get it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2005

    not the best thing...................................

    i thought that it would have more quotes from the diary than the explanation of how the germans eventually took over most countries.overall, it was okay it could have been better and i think we should all stick to reading the original diaries......

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2005

    Hard to understand, but altogether a good book

    I think this book was meant for older folks because a lot of these words are hard to pronounce, and require dictionaries to understand whats being talked about. I liked the book. It definitly showed what it was like to be a Jew during the Holocaust.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 20, 2005

    A MUST READ!!!

    ok..this is like a really heart breaking and a soul touching book...It is not something that an eight graders mind would understand but it is an amazing book!! People you should definitly read what these teenagers went through...It's a Gr8 book!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 28, 2005

    Definitley A Good Book

    i loved this book, but the fact that they kept having little informational parts was reeeally annoying, and they definitley should've put more in for anne frank then they did, but still, it was a pretty good book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2005

    it's okay.. if you want to jab your eyes out with forks afterwards.

    I agree with some of these guys. This book needs more diary entries and less 'research paper' material. We read it with our English group and we almost killed ourselves because of how boring it was.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 1, 2005

    WHAT A HEART BREAKING BOOK!

    It is a great book. People realy should read it. Some peole may think they have it bad, but wait to you read this book about 5 innocent Jewish kids who have to suffer. No one can come close to thi much suffering. It is heart breaking. Please would you take the time to read about these suffering kids. ~!THANKS!~

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 21, 2004

    A Great book

    I thought the book was great, it helped you to understand what the teenagers were going through. I was a little hard to understand at some points and really hard to pronounce, but it was an excellent book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 1, 2004

    Valuable Reading Material

    I thought this book made me think long and hard about my values. I think these teenagers are revolutionary. I loved it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2004

    It was HORRIBLE!!!!! (for teenagers)

    We had to read this book for english and everyone in my group thought it was horrible. If you are in the 8 grade atleast. Please trust me. I did not have ebnouph of their feelings toward what they were going through. needed more diary enteries

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2002

    This was a great book

    This book was great because the details are so vivid and makes you feel their pain that they suffered.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2002

    Hope

    We Are Witnesses by Jacob Boas is an inspirational book about hope during World War II. The diaries of five Jewish teenagers who lived during the Holocaust are compiled in this brilliant work of art. The book goes through the sacrifices each had to make and the hope they held on to in order to abide to Hitler¿s laws. We Are Witnesses goes in detail with their everyday lives and how they changed as Hitler¿s laws grew more intense. Each teenager lived in a different part of Europe so in turn experienced his wrath at different times. None of them were able to pull through however, so all that is left of them is their diaries. David Rubinowicz, Yitzhak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Eva Heyman, and Anne Frank all had goals they wanted to achieve after the war was over. David wanted to move back to his house and run and play in their fields like he had done so many times before in his life. Yitzhak had dreams of studying until he could know no more. Moshe wanted to become the leader of his people in their own state. Eva wanted to once again live her mother, the most important person in her life. Anne wanted to become the best writer she could be. Each one believed they were going to have the chance to stay alive and live their dreams. ¿We now possess so much consciousness that we can say that we are not ashamed of our badges! Let those be ashamed who have hung them on us.¿ (47). They weren¿t going to let Hitler¿s new rules get them down, they were going to reverse the effect he was trying to get to show he couldn¿t win. Overall this book was very good. It gave insight into the Holocaust and taught you about it. Compiling the five different experiences was a great idea because it gave the viewpoints of many different perspectives. However, some people might not like reading the portions of diaries and then reading the author¿s viewpoint on each part. The author does do a lot of explaining of the changes Hitler was making at the time the diaries were being written, though, so it does help in understanding why they wrote what they did. Hope got these young people through the rough times in their lives, unfortunately it was unable to save them. We can use hope in our lives to keep us going and we don¿t have to worry about not being able to live our dreams and fulfill our goals. We need to take the opportunities in our lives and make full use of them, like the teens in this book would have.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2001

    A Serious and Outstanding Book

    This book is dedicated to the lost lives of these 5 children.I am a serious bookworm who is interested in the Holocaust because I live in Germany!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2001

    great book

    if you understand and feel what the holocaust must have been like,you will enjoy reading this.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2000

    Paints a very vivid picture of the Holocaust.

    This was an outstanding book. Even through thick and thin, hope still exists. Each individual count. They didn't put to much attention on Anne Frank and made every character important. Terrific, and it is as if I understood all five teenager's pains.

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