Elsie's War
A Story of Courage in Nazi Germany
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-0-7112-1861-1 (ISBN)
Description
A follow-up to "My Secret Camera", this photographic testimony for children is the inspiring story of Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, a member of the wealthy "Leica camera" family, who risked everything in order to help those who were being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. The Gestapo found out about Elsie's activities and was torn from her children and imprisoned in dreadful conditions. The book tells a story of courage and self-sacrifice in a time of great adversity, illustrated with photographs from the Leica archives and from Elsie's own family collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 239 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-1861-1 (9780711218611)
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Persons
Frank Dabba Smith was born in California. He was ordained as a rabbi at Leo Baeck College, London, in 1994. He is Rabbi of Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue and is chairperson of the Rabbinic Conference of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Rabbis. Frank also works as a freelance photographer and The Economist has published over 150 of his images. His rabbinical thesis, Photography and the Holocaust, is a critical approach to surveying the use of photography as a communications and propaganda device by all parties involved in the Holocaust. Frank's first book for Frances Lincoln was My Secret Camera.