- Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust
- by Don Brown
- Clarion Books
- Publication Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN-13: 9780358538165
Don Brown’s newest offering tells the true stories of Jewish children escaping the horrors of the Holocaust. Parents were forced to make a terrible choice – keep their children with them and risk death or send their children away knowing they would likely never see them again. Individual stories of children fleeing on organized train transports, hiding with sympathetic families, and traveling over mountains on foot are told. Some children had miraculous escapes, but many were not so lucky.
Nearly 90% of Jewish European children did not survive the Holocaust and Don Brown tells their stories with care and sensitivity while fully showing the devastation of the Holocaust. With stark, sketchy illustrations in muted tones, Brown captures the feeling of parents desperately trying to save their children and children fearing for their lives. While there are many books and graphic novels to be found on World War II and the Holocaust, the unique lens of children’s escapes sets this one apart. During a time when knowledge of the Holocaust is waning among young people, this is an important story to read.
After reading Run and Hide take a look at Don Brown’s other nonfiction work, such as 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary. For other graphic novel depictions of the Holocaust and World War II, try Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust by Neal Shusterman or Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II by Ralph Shayne.
–Arianna Lechan
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