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Title: Anca's Story
Author: Mark Williams, Mick Griggs
Narrator: Anne R. Allen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-16
Publisher: Odyssey
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Three young children smuggle themselves into Auschwitz in search for their mothers.
Members Reviews:
The author owns a Thesaurus
Are you kidding me? The book begins with an elderly lady who survived WW2 wanting to tell a classroom of students her story. It begins by her angst of trying to find the right way to reach them and gain their attention. Fair enough. However, it seems as if the author uses a thesaurus to find the most obscure words to the point of distraction. We get it, she either has an extensive vocabulary, or a well worn thesaurus. As an educator who works with ninth graders, I can confidently say that she would have lost their attention within the first 15 minutes.
The plot is quite unbelievable, but in my view that is forgivable. It is creative, and the reader is drawn into the story line.
I would recommend this book to an adult, I think the average high school student would quit reading it out of sheer frustration with the language.
The biggest irony is that the author seems to try to impress the reader with an extensive vocabulary, yet makes several grammatical errors. I found that quite humorous.
A movie in the making?
This story would make an excellent movie. We often hear and read about the lengths a mother will go for her child, but rarely do we hear or read about the lengths a young child will go for his/her mother. Wanting nothing more than to locate and reunite with their mother after they were cruelly separated on a train platform enroute to imminent death, two children and a new found friend embark on a frightening mission across Nazi occupied Poland and sneak INTO a concentration camp. What happens along the way is harrowing, with many close calls. And even though this was all happening during one of the most disgusting and inhumane times in European history, there were many tender moments. What happens in the end? Do they find their mother at Auschwitz? Read the book to find out.
Unique story
This is a story about three children who broke into Auschwitz and lived there undetected for four months. Before breaking in, they traveled from Romania to Poland in cattle cars, lived on leaves in the woods, fought a wolf... true? Interesting, but implausible. However, I was very impressed with the lexicon the author used.
and then the tears came
As I read this book I remember seeing the sights we saw in the 60s as we walked through the gates of Dauaua. And later went to a play, " I never saw another butterfly ". Put on by a group of high school students and more tears came as I saw every one else of the audience with tears running down their faces. We will never forget!
Making history real
A fictional story about a real and terrible event - an event that seems too awful to be true and yet it is.
Anca is 12, her brother, Nicholae, is 6. Elone is 9. The children were separated from their parents on the way to a labour camp (actually Auschwitz, a death camp) and were left to cope alone. Elone and her family were Jews, though Anca's family was not. It was not only Jews that wound up in the Nazi death camps.
I do have criticisms of this story - that the language was often unnatural, and the author has a liking for obscure words - words that are not even in a normal size dictionary.
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Title: Anca's Story
Author: Mark Williams, Mick Griggs
Narrator: Anne R. Allen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-16
Publisher: Odyssey
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Three young children smuggle themselves into Auschwitz in search for their mothers.
Members Reviews:
The author owns a Thesaurus
Are you kidding me? The book begins with an elderly lady who survived WW2 wanting to tell a classroom of students her story. It begins by her angst of trying to find the right way to reach them and gain their attention. Fair enough. However, it seems as if the author uses a thesaurus to find the most obscure words to the point of distraction. We get it, she either has an extensive vocabulary, or a well worn thesaurus. As an educator who works with ninth graders, I can confidently say that she would have lost their attention within the first 15 minutes.
The plot is quite unbelievable, but in my view that is forgivable. It is creative, and the reader is drawn into the story line.
I would recommend this book to an adult, I think the average high school student would quit reading it out of sheer frustration with the language.
The biggest irony is that the author seems to try to impress the reader with an extensive vocabulary, yet makes several grammatical errors. I found that quite humorous.
A movie in the making?
This story would make an excellent movie. We often hear and read about the lengths a mother will go for her child, but rarely do we hear or read about the lengths a young child will go for his/her mother. Wanting nothing more than to locate and reunite with their mother after they were cruelly separated on a train platform enroute to imminent death, two children and a new found friend embark on a frightening mission across Nazi occupied Poland and sneak INTO a concentration camp. What happens along the way is harrowing, with many close calls. And even though this was all happening during one of the most disgusting and inhumane times in European history, there were many tender moments. What happens in the end? Do they find their mother at Auschwitz? Read the book to find out.
Unique story
This is a story about three children who broke into Auschwitz and lived there undetected for four months. Before breaking in, they traveled from Romania to Poland in cattle cars, lived on leaves in the woods, fought a wolf... true? Interesting, but implausible. However, I was very impressed with the lexicon the author used.
and then the tears came
As I read this book I remember seeing the sights we saw in the 60s as we walked through the gates of Dauaua. And later went to a play, " I never saw another butterfly ". Put on by a group of high school students and more tears came as I saw every one else of the audience with tears running down their faces. We will never forget!
Making history real
A fictional story about a real and terrible event - an event that seems too awful to be true and yet it is.
Anca is 12, her brother, Nicholae, is 6. Elone is 9. The children were separated from their parents on the way to a labour camp (actually Auschwitz, a death camp) and were left to cope alone. Elone and her family were Jews, though Anca's family was not. It was not only Jews that wound up in the Nazi death camps.
I do have criticisms of this story - that the language was often unnatural, and the author has a liking for obscure words - words that are not even in a normal size dictionary.