The Holocaust was the most tragic event of the 20th century. As individuals who survived the Holocaust become older and pass on, the memories of what happened are dimming, becoming only a fact of history for most people. Such a tragedy must never occur again however, and it is important to listen to the voices of those who lived through it. In this short illustrated graphic novel, six people talk about their experiences during the Holocaust. Five of them were able to get on the Kindertrains that ran from Germany to England just before the war, and they therefore survived. One of them was sent to concentration camps to die, but lived to tell his experiences.
The illustrations are haunting, and represent a child's point of view on the events that happened during the 1930s and 1940s. For most of them, they didn't understand what was happening around them, or why Germans were so opposed to Jews. They suffered the applications of genocidal policies designed to eliminate an entire group of humans. A summary at the end of the book discusses the lives that these six children had after the war, but all of them remained haunted by what they saw.
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