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Thirteen-year-old Clara and her family have just been imprisoned in Terezin, a ghetto built to show the world how "well" the Nazis were treating Jews during WWII. Clara faces hunger, disease and the possibility of death in a concentration camp.
About this Author
Kathy Kacer has won many awards for her writing, including the Silver Birch, the Red Maple, the Hackmatack and the American Jewish Library Association Award. In 1999, she wrote the first book in Second Story Press' Holocaust Remembrance Series, The Secret of Gabi's Dresser. Since then, she's penned four other books for the series. A former psychologist who worked with troubled teens, Kacer now writes about the Holocaust for young readers and travels the country speaking about it. Kacer lives in Toronto with her family.
Reviews
Kacer doesn't spare readers from the sheer horror of life in the ghetto or from the prospects of what lay beyond Terezin in the death camps that were the final destination of Terezins inmates. But in telling the story of Brundibar and giving readers a glimpse of the incredible artistic life that was secretly fostered in the ghetto, Kacer's novel is also a story of hope, courage, and humanity in the face of overwhelming suffering and adversity.
This portrait of life in Terezin through the eyes of a girl in her early teens is spellbinding. The author conveys the reality of Clara's experiences, her uncertainties, dreams and hardships realistically, but not frighteningly.
Deftly capturing the essence of this amazing historical event, Clara's War is a splendid addition to fictional explorations of the Holocaust.
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