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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 GREAT BOOK HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Dec 12, 2009
By Lester
The 10,000 Children That Hitler Missed by Lori Greschler describes a world that often feels like it is teetering toward relenting madness, yet the surviving children show astonishing resilience. In a concise, unadorned manner, she describes the spiraling insanity that surrounded the Jewish population all over Europe yet refrains from sharing the gory details. We are all aware of the world that the survivors left, the Nazi infested insanity, yet the writer takes us on the journey of the Kindertransport and focuses on the lives of the children who all survived-relentlessly and with courage. Their parents sent their children away in order to grant them deliverance and the stories are varied, interesting and provides a glimpse into the children who but did not live in concentration camps per. say but still lives through a life of hell. I highly recommend this book!
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
The 10,000 Children That Hitler Missed is heartwrenching! Oct 12, 2009
By J. Fitch
"J. Fitch"
This book kept me on the edge of my seat! In this anthology told by Holocaust survivors who fled Europe on the Kindertransport nineteen boys and girls recount in vivid detail the horrors they left behind and the new lives they were forced to forge in Great Britain without their natural parents. Some of the survivors never saw their parents again while others were reunited after the war. The stories are varied, eloquent and moving and sheds new light on the traditional stories from Holocaust survivors. This book belongs on shelves worldwide!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 I wish I could praise this book.... Oct 23, 2009
By Bookworm
"A reader"
I have read other books (my favorite is "The Children of Willesden Lane")on the subject of the rescue of Jewish children from Europe on the brink of WWII. Ten thousand were rescued and welcomed by Britain. I was looking forward to this book, and wish I could sing its praises. However, it is so poorly written, from a grammar and spelling standpoint, that I could hardly finish it. It appears that no one edited it. I am sure this was a project that was very dear to the author's heart, so it is difficult to critize her. I would hope that if the book goes into a second edition, she will seek some proofreading help.
A typical sentence, picked at random: "The emotional brutality still lives with the survivors, but also torments the young children who wrote their sweet poems in Sonya (sic) diary".
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