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• Annotation:
• Krimstein’s graphic nonfiction book is “based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII?found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar.” --Amazon
• Creator:
• Author - Ken Krimstein
• Publication Information:
• Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, 2021
• Color or Black & White:
• 
• Genre:
• Autobiography/Memoir
• Bibliography Available:
• Yes
• Original Language:
• English
• Historical Topic/Event:
• Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
• World War (1939-1945)
• Jewish children in the Holocaust
• Geographic Setting:
• Lithuania--Vilnius
• Poland
• Date Range:
• 1932 - 1939
• Tags:
• Holocaust, Jewish children, Eastern Europe, Holocaust, YIVO, Paper Brigade, Beba Epstein, Yiddishuania
• Notes:
• These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them.” -- Amazon The grand prize was to be awarded on September 1, 1939. The day the Nazis invaded Poland and WW2 began.
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