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Child of the Holocaust
Memoir by Jack Kuper, 1967
Jack Kuper's Child of the Holocaust relates the story of Jankele Kuperblum, a young Jewish boy whose impoverished family arranges for him to be taken on as a farmhand by a local Polish woman in the summer of 1942.
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While suffering the fear and pain of being separated from his family and being thrust into an alien and menacing reality, this food and shelter for work arrangement saves Jankele's life. While he is working on the farm, the Germans liquidate the Jews of his hometown.
Child of the Holocaust belongs to that domain of Holocaust literature concerning children hidden during the Holocaust years.
As such, this leads to a natural comparison between this work and what may be arguably the two most well-known works concerning children and the Holocaust: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Jerzy Kosinski 's The Painted Bird.
Like those works, in this work there are none of the more harsh elements of the Holocaust ex
