I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Laura Hillman$19.54
$22.99
"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD."
In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn.
Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, starvation, beatings...How could Mama and her two younger brothers bear that? She made a decision: She would go home and be deported with her family. Despite the horrors she faced in eight labor and concentration camps, Hannelore met and fell in love with a Polish POW named Dick Hillman.
Oskar Schindler was their one hope to survive. Schindler had a plan to take eleven hundred Jews to the safety of his new factory in Czechoslovakia. Incredibly both she and Dick were added to his list. But survival was not that simple. Weeks later Hannelore found herself, alone, outside the gates of Auschwitz, pushed toward the smoking crematoria.
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree is the remarkable true story of one young woman's nightmarish coming-of-age. But it is also a story about the surprising possibilities for hope and love in one of history's most brutal times.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/01/2005
ISBN: 9780689869808
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.36h x 5.50w x 0.91d
Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2005 pg. 1587
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/2005 pg. 590
Ingram Children's Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 65
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2005 pg. 490
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2005 pg. 246 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Publishers Weekly 08/15/2005 pg. 60
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2005 pg. 601
School Library Journal 09/01/2005 pg. 223
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2005 pg. 398 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 87141 / I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 6
In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn.
Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, starvation, beatings...How could Mama and her two younger brothers bear that? She made a decision: She would go home and be deported with her family. Despite the horrors she faced in eight labor and concentration camps, Hannelore met and fell in love with a Polish POW named Dick Hillman.
Oskar Schindler was their one hope to survive. Schindler had a plan to take eleven hundred Jews to the safety of his new factory in Czechoslovakia. Incredibly both she and Dick were added to his list. But survival was not that simple. Weeks later Hannelore found herself, alone, outside the gates of Auschwitz, pushed toward the smoking crematoria.
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree is the remarkable true story of one young woman's nightmarish coming-of-age. But it is also a story about the surprising possibilities for hope and love in one of history's most brutal times.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/01/2005
ISBN: 9780689869808
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.36h x 5.50w x 0.91d
Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2005 pg. 1587
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/2005 pg. 590
Ingram Children's Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 65
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2005 pg. 490
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2005 pg. 246 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Publishers Weekly 08/15/2005 pg. 60
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2005 pg. 601
School Library Journal 09/01/2005 pg. 223
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2005 pg. 398 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 87141 / I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 6