Ms. Melnikoff weaves a fiction of 12-year old Czech Jew Jan who finds himself living in both 1942 and 1589. I appreciated the picture of life in a 16th century Jewish ghetto and learned that those Jews wore yellow circles as identification, which makes Hilter’s use of the yellow star more sinister than I already thought. Jan is ultimately taken to Theresienstadt, the concentration camp also known as Terezin. Detailed description of “life” for children in this camp.
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