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    Boy from Buchenwald | Book Review

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    Boy from Buchenwald

    Boy from Buchenwald

    Written by Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland

    Ages 9-11 | 288 Pages

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books | ISBN: 9781547606009

    What to Expect: Holocaust, healing, reconciliation, forgiveness

    Filled with heartbreakingly detailed memories, Robbie Waisman’s narrative is painful in a way that is both necessary and healing.

    After his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Romek Waisman had a lot of anger: for the people who had abused him and the world that had let it happen. Along with other teen boys liberated from the camp, he became one of the “Buchenwald Boys,” using violence and crime to rebel against the horror he had witnessed and suffered through. However, Romek’s downward spiral was halted when he and 427 other boys were taken to a home for rehabilitation in France. There, Romek would begin a journey of healing that would help him re-learn how to forgive, love, and live again.

    Told in the first person, the account depicts both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer, inviting readers to vicariously experience Waisman’s own process of healing and moving on. Throughout the story, photographs add their own flavor of authenticity to the retelling, while flashbacks at the beginning of each chapter offer a history lesson on how easy it is for a genocide to begin. This is a narrative that challenges readers to both remember and forgive, just as the Buchenwald Boys themselves did. It is not easy to read, but any reader who picks it up will be glad they did so.

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    About the Authors
    Robbie Waisman

    Romek “Robbie” Waisman is a Polish-Canadian educator and active member of the Holocaust survivor community in Canada.

    Susan McClelland

    Susan McClelland is a freelance magazine journalist based in Toronto. She has won and been nominated for numerous investigative reporting and feature-writing awards, and is the recipient of the 2005 Amnesty International Media Award.

    Boy from Buchenwald, written by Robbie Waisman and Susan McClelland, was reviewed by Dr. Jen Harrison. Discover more books like Boy from Buchenwald by following our reviews and articles tagged with Holocaust and non-fiction.

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    Dr. Jen Harrison currently teaches writing and literature at East Stroudsburg University. She also provides freelance writing, editing, and tuition services as the founder of Read.Write.Perfect. She completed her Ph.D. in Children’s and Victorian Literature at Aberystwyth University in Wales, in the UK. After a brief spell in administration, Jen then trained as a secondary school English teacher and worked for several years teaching Secondary School English, working independently as a private tutor of English, and working in nursery and primary schools. She is an editor for the peer-reviewed journal of children’s literature, Jeunesse, and publishes academic work on children’s non-fiction, YA speculative fiction, and the posthuman.

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