This book is a momoir of a child who survived the Holocaust.  Anita Lobel's story begins when she was five years old living in Krakow, Poland and ends when she was sixteen years old living in America.  This horrific account portrays the terror, pain, and imprisonment that Jews suffered during the Holocaust.  Her story is about struggle, bravery, and the will to survive.  This book enables the reader to view and understand what it was like for a young girl to live during this terrible period in time.

    Anita Lobel is a well known children's illustrator and author.  She has also worked as a singer and an actress.  Anita many interests including languages, music, theatre, and art.

    Anita spent her early childhood in Poland in the city of her birth, Kracow.  Her family was Jewish in a time when Jewish people were being persequted by the Nazi Occupation.  Anita had only one brother, a mother, and a father.  Her father left Poland shortly before the rest of the family did to try and flee from Nazi officials. Anita's mother sent Anita and her brother with their nurse, a devout Catholic.  Anita and her brother were eventually caught and sent to a series of concentration camps (Monelupi Prison, Plaszow, Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck).  Luckily, all members of the family survived and relocated to Stockholm.

    While in Stockholm Anita began to take art lessons and attend school regularly before the family relocated to New York.  Anita attended the Pratt Institute while on scholarship and met her future husband, Arnold Lobel.  Arnold Lobel is a known author and illustrator as well.  He is the author of the Frog and Toad books.

    Anita now lives in New York with her husband and their two children.  She is still writing and illustrating children's books and has now added a recent addition of a memoir of her life story which has received much acclaim in the past few years.

    Anita has been writing and illustrating children literature for the past thirty-seven years.  Her books have been published abroad and they have been written in several other languages.  In addition to selling her work to publishing companies, Anita sells original artwork from her books and other pictures she has created on her webpage.  All of the pictures used on this page (the flowers) are actually her creations.

    As with many things today, technology has significantly changed over the past thirty-seven years.  When Anita first began to create illustrations she used black ink drawings.  The drawings were then overlaid with watercolor washes.  The overlays were then made into colors when the entire thing was put into a printing press.  The colors during this time were rather dull and were not nearly as bright as they are today.

    A second way that Anita creates her illustrations is by having a by having a base ink drawing with a full color painted on a second board.  The boards are put into the printing press and blended together.

    Today illustrators are able to create their illustrations with full color paintings.

*A New Coat for Anna
*On Market Street
*Allison's Zinnia
*Away From Home
*Princess Furball
*The Dwarf Giant
*The Night Before Christmas
*Mangaboom
*My Day in the Garden
*Toads and Diamonds
*The Rose in My Garden
*One Lighthouse, One Moon
 

Young Adult Novels
*Four Pebbles:  A Holocaust Story
        *By: Lila Perl and Marion Blomental Lazan
*I Have Lived A Thousand Years:  Growing Up In The Holocaust
        *By: Livia Bitton-Jackson
*My Bridges Of Hope:  Searching For Life And Love After Auschwitz
        *By: Livia Bitton-Jackson
*To Life
        *By: Ruth Minsky Sender
*The Cage
        *By: Ruth Minsky Sender and Jim Coon
*We Are Witnesses:  Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust
        *By: Jacob Boas
*The Diary Of Anne Frank
        *By: Anne Frank
*Parallel Journeys
        *By: Eleanor H. Ayer
*The Survivor In Us All:  Four Young Sisters In The Holocaust
        *By: Erna F. Rubinstein
*After The Holocaust:  The Long Road To Freedom
        *By: Erna F. Rubinstein
*Rescue:  The Story Of How Gentiles Daved Jews In The Holocaust
        *By: Milton Mettzer
*An Unbroken Chain:  My Journey Through The Nazi Holocaust
*        *By: Henry A. Oertelt
*Bearing Witness:  Stories Of The Holocaust
        *Edited By: Hazen Rochman
*Grace In The Wilderness:  After The Liberation, 1945-1948
        *By: Aranka Siegal
*Briar Rose
        *By: Jane Yolen
*The Upstairs Room
        *Johanna Reiss
*The Journey Back
        *Johanna Reiss
*The Final Journey
        *Gudrun Pausewang
*Greater Than Angels
        *By: Carol Matas
*Thanks To My Mother
        *By: Shoshanah Rabinovici

Ages 9-12
*Surviving Hitler:  A Boy In Nazi Death Camps
        *By: Andrea Warren
*Daniel's Story
        *By: Carol Matas
*Darkness Over Denmark:  The Danish Resistance And The Rescue Of  The Jews
        *By: Ellen Levine
*Number The Stars
        *By: Lois Lowry
*The Devil's Arithemetic
        *By: Jane Yolen
*When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
        *By: Judith Kerr
*Behind The Bedroom Wall
        *By: Laura E. Williams
*Hide And Seek
        *By: Ida Vos
*Anna Is Still Here
        *By: Ida Vos
*The Key Is Lost
        *By: Ida Vos
*Jacob's Rescue:  A Holocaust Story
        *By: Malka Drucker
*When The Soldiers Were Gone
        *By: Vera W. Propp
*Best Friends
        *By: Elisabeth Reuter
*Escape To The Forest:  Based On A True Story Of The Holocaust
        *By: Ruth Yaffe Radin
*A Traitor Among Us
        *By: Elisabeth van Steenwyk
*Good Night, Maman
        *By: Norma Fox Mazer

Social Studies:
    *A unit on the Holocaust
    *A timeline
    *Geography of Nazi Occupation

Language Arts:
    *Research paper on the effect of the Holocaust on people's lives
    *Journal entries
        *Write an entry as though you are Anita Lobel

*Anita Lobel's Webpage
*Just For Kids Who Love Books
*Hall Kids Poetry

*Do You Know? Will You Remember?
*Holocaust In The 20th Century
*Teachers Guide To The Holocaust
*United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 

*Created for Young Adult Literature course at Salisbury University under the direction of Dr. Ernie Bond.
*All pictures from www.anitalobel.com are used with the author's permission and knowledge.

Created in April 2002 by:    Christina Allhoff
                                            Jennifer Haynes