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“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”

Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust : Young Reader’s Edition by Hedi Fried

December 13, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Four main things stand out for me from reading Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust : Young Reader’s Edition. The first, it took the author, Hedi Fried, a lifetime to heal and process her experiences; the second, history has repeated itself, and third, while I knew what genocide meant (there is also a glossary that gives a technical definition) it was broken down by etymology: genos: people and cide: murder, or People Murder. But perhaps the big takeaway from this translation by Alice E. Olsson […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: 20th Century, Alice E. Olsson, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belse, Hedi Fried, Holocaust, Hungry, jews, Judaism, Laila Ekboir, Romania, World War II

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:872 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: 20th Century, Alice E. Olsson, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belse, Hedi Fried, Holocaust, Hungry, jews, Judaism, Laila Ekboir, Romania, World War II ·
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Never Going to Romania…Sorry, Not Sorry

January 27, 2016 by Melina 1 Comment

Follow You Home follows (see what I did there?) Daniel and Laura as they are wrapping up what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime.  After this, these thirty somethings are going to settle down, have a baby and live an uneventful but happy life in London.  But you know what they say about best laid plans right?  Yeah, everything pretty much goes to hell.  The happy couple find themselves on a train travelling through Romania.  There’s already a little tension because Daniel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: aintgoingthere, CBR8, Follow You Home, Mark Edwards, Melina, mystery, Romania, Suspense

Melina's CBR8 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: aintgoingthere, CBR8, Follow You Home, Mark Edwards, Melina, mystery, Romania, Suspense ·
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