Childhood
Jona Oberski
Penguin Publishing Group
<b>A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child's eyes</b><br><br>Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, <i>Childhood </i>is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement, <i>Childhood </i>stands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as <i>The Diary of Anne Frank, </i>Elie Wiesel's<i> Night, </i>and <i>Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz.</i></br></br>