The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin

Author Susan Rubin presents the true story of survivor Ela Weissberger, born Ela Stein, whose family's Holocaust journey ends in Terezin, the Nazi camp famous for the art and music that was sustained there by the inmates and that was used by the Nazis to fool the Red Cross into believing they had given a model town to the Jews. Beginning at age 11, Ela survives physically by working in a garden, emotionally by bonding with... Read Full Review

A couple of years ago, Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner collaborated together to bring the world a picture book by the name of "Brundibar". Based on the opera that the Jewish children of the Terezin concentration camp had to sing, the book was filled to brimming with good intentions and sadly lacking in any and all factual information. It was more a labor of love than a book meant to enlighten children as to the significance... Read Full Review

Susan Goldman Rubin's work does much to broaden young readers' understanding of the Holocaust. Again she succeeds with this sensitive and passionate non-fiction book on a little known Holocaust era figure. While Rubin was researching for her award-winning book, Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin, she attended a performance of Brundibar, the children's opera staged at Terezin... Read Full Review