The Jews who rebelled against Nazi violence joined the resistance formation.
Their stories, little told, are retraced by Loredana Frescura and Marco Tomatis in 'Judith', published by Giunti in the Junior Library for Remembrance Day and intended for boys and girls aged 12 and over.
Inspired by real testimonies, by lives that have crossed history trying to change it, the book sees Judith, a 14-year-old Jewish girl from a small village in Poland, being locked up in the ghetto together with her large family, at the outbreak of the Second World War.
At the beginning the girl does not fully realize what is happening around her, but the concentration camp experience will be only the first of the many abuses that she and her family will have to suffer.
One day, they are all gathered in front of a large pit.
As people fall around her, Judith is grazed.
Surviving that horrible massacre has only one meaning for Judith: she will have to testify to the world what happened.
"I want justice. And it can only happen if some of us live" is told in the book.
Frescura, author of over thirty books for children, teenagers and adults, and Tomatis, for years a comic book screenwriter with drawings by Cinzia Ghigliano, have already written about ten books together including 'With the world in your eyes' with which they won the 2006 Andersen Prize.
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