Never to Forget

Six million Jews were killed in Europe between 1933 and 1945, a number that is almost impossible to picture. People are told never to forget the Holocaust, but it is hard to remember something so vast. Milton Meltzer's answer is to turn from the statistics to the individuals behind them.

For the families who were torn apart and who watched parents and children vanish or be murdered, the losses were painfully countable: one, two, three, and often more. This book gathers the stories of those people from letters, diaries, songs and history books, and from the memories of survivors. It follows Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II, and by seeing events through the victims' own eyes, readers come to grasp the horror as something real.

The book was first published in 1976 and is written for young readers. It is also a way of taking up the call to remember.