Holocaust survivors’ stories are focus of West Linn author’s latest children’s book
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
Deborah Hopkinson s new book is a companion to last year s We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport. Author photo by Melissa Hill/Courtesy of Scholastic
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“Why us?” Chella Kryszek wondered, long after the horror was over. Why did she and her sister survive? “Surely we were no better than anybody else. Surely we were no stronger than anybody else.”
But survive they did, and Kryszek spent the rest of her life telling young people about her experiences as a Jewish teen during the Holocaust.