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    Fight for Survival: The Story of the Holocaust
    Fight for Survival: The Story of the Holocaust
    Fight for Survival: The Story of the Holocaust
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    Fight for Survival: The Story of the Holocaust

    By H. G. Wells

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    In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the events of the Holocaust.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515752615
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    H. G. Wells

    The son of a professional cricketer and a lady’s maid, H. G. Wells (1866–1946) served apprenticeships as a draper and a chemist’s assistant before winning a scholarship to the prestigious Normal School of Science in London. While he is best remembered for his groundbreaking science fiction novels, including The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Wells also wrote extensively on politics and social matters and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of his day. 

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      Book preview

      Fight for Survival - H. G. Wells

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover Page

      Title Page

      Foreword

      1 A Cry for Justice

      2 The Crime of Being Jewish

      3 An Uncertain Future

      4 No Need to Be Afraid

      5 Taken Away

      6 They Could Only Pray

      7 Awaiting Judgment

      Epilogue

      Timeline

      Glossary

      Critical Thinking Using the Common Core

      Internet Sites

      Further Reading

      Selected Bibliography

      Index

      About the Author

      Copyright Page

      Back Cover

      FOREWORD

      In 1919, on the heels of the loss to the Allied Powers in World War I, Germany begrudgingly signed a treaty accepting responsibility for the conf lict. The nation had lost many territories and was also ordered to pay for damages sustained during the war. As a result, many Germans despaired as the economy crumbled around them. When war hero Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party, the struggling middle class was desperate for hope.

      Using propaganda, Hitler placed the blame for Germany’s problems on anyone who was not a member of the Aryan race, which consisted of white, non-Jewish Germans. The Nazis spread their message of hate through newspaper cartoons that belittled Jewish men, women, and children. By 1928, more than 100,000 Germans had pledged their allegiance to the Nazi Party.

      Hitler officially rose to power when he was named the chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. As his power grew and his control of the government became more complete, life for Jews in Germany became increasingly difficult. In an effort to remove Jews from positions of inf luence, those who worked as civil servants or in newspaper publishing were fired. The Nazis also eliminated many Jewish-owned businesses. Jewish doctors were only permitted to provide services to other Jews.

      By 1935, all Jews were no longer considered citizens. They, along with other minorities, became targets of legal segregation and public humiliation. While many Jews emigrated to less hostile areas, many others remained in Germany. But the situation would only get worse for the Jews. Much worse.

      1

      A CRY FOR JUSTICE

      Herschel Grynszpan (center)

      Herschel Grynszpan

      Paris, France, November 7, 1938, morning

      Seventeen-year-old Herschel Grynszpan held the postcard from his sister, Berta, in his trembling hand. He had read her message so many times since receiving the postcard four days earlier that he didn’t need to look at it to know what it said. The words felt as if they’d been chiseled into his brain.

      Herschel had lived in France since 1936. With his parents’ blessing, he had made the move as growing discrimination against Jews made it clear that he had no future in Germany. Now the Nazis had arrested his family. He’d heard rumors that thousands of others had been arrested, as well. Their crime was nothing more than being Jewish. For this, they were deprived of their possessions, packed into railroad cars until they had no room to sit down, and sent to Lodz, Poland. They had been treated more like a herd of animals than human beings. He read Berta’s words once more.

      No one told us what was up, but we realized this was going to be the end ... We haven’t a penny. Could you send us something?

      Herschel set the card aside, then picked up a fresh postcard and began to write a response. A short time later, he made his way through Paris, finally arriving at the locked gates of the German Embassy. There he spotted a well-dressed man arriving at the building.

      I must speak to a member of the diplomatic staff, Herschel said, trying to conceal the tremor in his voice.

      You need to speak to our doorman, Mathes, to be let in, the man replied before walking casually inside.

      Herschel took a deep breath, then calmly turned to the doorman and said, "I have some important documents for the ambassador."

      Once inside, Herschel could feel his heart pounding in his chest. It had been easy enough getting into the building, but the worst part was yet to come.

      He had never pointed a gun at another human being and then pulled the trigger before. Now he wondered if he could go through with it. But then he thought again of his family cruelly packed inside a train car and felt the anger rising inside him. They were good people, ripped away from the life they had worked so hard to create. He thought of them thrown into a world where even hope had been taken from them.

      He could not forgive these arrests, this horrible treatment of his family and other Jews by the Germans. He knew it was up to him to stand up and do something to avenge the Jewish people. Herschel pulled a postcard from his pocket and looked again at

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