The books in this series attempt to present a broad, bal­anced, and pen­e­trat­ing view of the march of his­to­ry. The title under review is a suc­cinct but thor­ough his­to­ry, with poignant boxed quotes from sur­vivors, and numer­ous photos. 

In addi­tion to the dia­grammed time­line of the Holo­caust, top­ics include: the seeds of the Holo­caust, how the Nazis stripped peo­ple of their rights, the Jew­ish ghet­to, the Final Solu­tion and life and death in the con­cen­tra­tion camps. On a more pos­i­tive note, also includ­ed are resis­tance and res­cue, lib­er­a­tion with its prob­lems, sur­vivors mak­ing new lives includ­ing involve­ment in the for­ma­tion of the mod­ern State of Israel, and bring­ing Nazi war crim­i­nals to jus­tice. The over­all mes­sage is that we must remem­ber the Holo­caust because until prej­u­dice against those who are dif­fer­ent from us is smoth­ered, the hor­rors described are bound to hap­pen again. Notes, a read­ing list, bib­li­og­ra­phy, and index round out this well-writ­ten vol­ume. Ages 11 – 15.