SuitabookNever to Forget
Milton Meltzer
- Reading
- Consider reading and discussing it together, pausing after personal accounts to reflect on what they convey and what remains difficult to comprehend.
- Themes
- Remembering the Holocaust through personal accounts: The historical account draws on diaries, letters, songs and survivors’ memories to represent Jewish experiences under Nazi Germany before and during the Second World War. The stated approach is informational: it turns attention from statistics towards individual lives to help readers consider how the Holocaust can be remembered.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes the persecution and killing of Jewish people, families torn apart, and accounts of suffering. These are weighty historical experiences to encounter.