Erika's Story
by Ruth Vander Zee, Roberto Innocenti
“From 1933 to 1945, six million of my people were killed.
Many were shot. Many were starved. Many were burned in ovens or gassed in chambers.
I was not.
I was born sometime in 1944.
I do not know my birthdate.
I do not know my birth name.
I do not know in what city or country I was born.
I do not know if I had brothers or sisters.
What I do know is that when I was just a few months old, I was saved from the Holocaust.
I often imagine what my family’s life was like the last few weeks we spent together. I imagine my mother and father robbed of everything they owned, forced from their home, and relocated to a ghetto.”
LA STORIA DI ERIKA
Text by Ruth Vander Zee
Illustrations by Roberto Innocenti
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