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The children's block / Otto B Kraus.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F KRAU	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781529105568 (paperback)
Classification	F KRAU
Personal Name	Kraus, Ota B., 1921-
Title	The children's block / Otto B Kraus.
Variant Title	based on a true story by Auschwitz survivor
Production & Copyright Details	London : Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, 2019.
Production & Copyright Details	©2019
Physical Description	xiii, 274 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type	text
Note	First published as Smoke is my brother in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere as The painted wall in 1993.
Summary Note	Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children's block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary...
Subject-Personal Name	Kraus, Ota B., -- 1921-Fiction
Subject-Corporate Name	Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction
Subject - Topical Term	Jewish children -- Poland -- Fiction
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Autobiographical fiction
Added Entry	Smoke is my brother.
Added Entry	The painted wall.