Thanks to My Mother

Schoschana Rabinovici

Mar 2000 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes you will never forget.

Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award
An ALA Notable Book
An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Ratings and reviews

What was the name of the female Aryan guards at one of the death camps? They carried whips and were very cruel...I believe the word started with a K.

About the author

Schoschana Rabinovici is a Holocaust survivor and the author of Dank meiner Mutter, which was published in the United States as Thanks to My Mother, a memoir of her experience and survival of the Holocaust. It was an ALA notable book and its English translation won the 1999 Mildred L. Batchelder Award. Rabinovici lives in Tel Aviv.

James Skofield is the author of several picture books, including Bear and Bird and Detective Dinosaur. He is also the translator of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award–winning book Thanks to My Mother, by Schoschana Rabinovici. He lives in New Hampshire.