What Was the Holocaust?

<b>A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. <p/></b>The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history. <p/>This entry in the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers.