Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn - ESSENTIAL

Glatshteyn, Yankev Emil and Karl 194 p. Roaring Brook (Holtzbrinck) – 

MS, HS – ESSENTIAL

Emil and Karl are best friends in the city of Vienna at the start of World War II. Through horrible circumstances, both young boys are left orphaned and without family to take them in. Their little eyes see many of the cruel atrocities carried out in the name of Christianity upon the bodies of Austria’s Jews. 

The amazing thing about this book is that it was written in 1940, in Yiddish, so that the Jewish children of America could know what was really going on in Europe. I am amazed that it hadn’t surfaced in English before now. 

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