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Joshua M. Greene

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The Book

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Book INFO

Title: Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust
Author: Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: Scholastic Focus
ISBN: print ISBN 978-1-338-75335-6
Page Count: 124
Available In: hardback
Recommended Age: 9+
Grade Level: 4 and up

Book summaries & Jacket Copy

Meet Renee and Herta, two sister who faced the unimaginable—together.

As Jews in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. When their parents were tragically taken away, the sisters went on the run, desperate to find safety. But Renee and Herta were captured and taken to the concentration camp in Bergen Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, disease, and starvation, the sisters would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in vivid oral history format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever, a reminder of how important it is to honor the past and keep telling our own stories.

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As the only hearing person in her family, Renee must guide her deaf parents and sister through the horrors of a Nazi invasion. Based on a true story.

Blurbs & Quotes

“I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both our parents were deaf. I was my family’s ears.”

“I had a terrible time falling asleep that first night in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. We’d had nothing to eat. We were starving and scared.”

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