Questions I am asked about the Holocaust: young readers edition

$24.99

A young readers edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust.

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labour before being released at the end of the war.

After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened.

This is a deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.

Ages 8+ | 211mm × 140mm | 208pp | 3 Pantones | Gold foil on cover

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Author: Hédi Fried
Illustrator: Laila Ekboir
Translator: Alice E. Olsson

AU Edition (Hardback) | AUD$24.99

Publication Date: 4 April 2023
ISBN: 9781922585783

UK Edition (Hardback) | £12.99 | Buy at Bookshop.org

Publication Date: 13 April 2023
ISBN: 9781914484995

US Edition (Hardback) | US$18.95 | Buy at Bookshop.org

Publication Date: 4 April 2023
ISBN: 9781957363233

‘Timeless lessons taught with simple eloquence.’
Kirkus Reviews

‘Fried's straightforward, candid answers are as informative as they are moving. This book should be required school reading.’
— Kylie Northover, The Age

‘[S]ince these questions come from children, they quickly reach a level of intimacy that most adults would be afraid to venture into … With sensitivity and complete candour, Fried answers these questions and more in this deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.’
The Jewish Standard, Ontario

‘It is the telling detail that gives her testimony its particular power … This little book, with its reminder “there are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some … that have no answer”, is a moving record of one woman’s experience.’
— Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times

‘This slim but powerful volume, sensitively translated by Alice Olsson, comprises answers to the questions she is most frequently asked, such as: “Why did you not fight back?” and “What helped you to survive?”, “Are you able to forgive?” Fried answers with humanity, candour and thoughtfulness in a book that should be required reading for all young people.’
— Hannah Beckerman, The Guardian

 
 
Hédi Fried (1924–2022) was an author and psychologist. She was deeply committed to working for democratic values and against racism. She was born in the town of Sighet, in Romania, was transported to Auschwitz in 1944, and worked in several labour camps, eventually ending up in Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, she moved to Sweden with her sister. Her bestselling autobiography, Fragments of a Life: the road to Auschwitz, was published in English and Swedish in the 1990s.
 
Alice E. Olsson is a literary translator, writer, and editor working across Swedish and English. She has served as the Cultural Affairs Adviser at the Embassy of Sweden in London and is the recipient of a fellowship as well as multiple grants from the Swedish Arts Council. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at University College London, specialising in literature and human rights.

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Laila Ekboir is an Argentine illustrator. As a kid, she was lucky enough to have parents who were avid readers and instilled in her a love of books. She got a BA in English Lit but found her true passion after graduating, in a workshop for children’s book illustration in Argentina. She later went on to pursue an MA in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art.

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