Wholesale Erika's Story

The haunting true story of a woman who was spared from the horrors of the Holocaust as a child is fittingly paired with Roberto Innocenti’s grimly photorealistic illustrations. Reviews "My mother threw me from the train." A Jewish woman in Germany today tells how, as an infant, she survived the Holocaust after she was thrown from a train on its way to the camps in 1944 and was taken in and raised by a village woman. The survivor imagines her parents in the ghetto and transports. Did they hold her close and kiss her before throwing her away to save her life? Innocenti, who did the Holocaust picture book Rose Blanche (1991), dramatizes the horror in amazingly detailed photo-like illustrations with an overlay of surreal imagery: a small baby carriage stands on the platform as the Jews are being loaded into the cattle cars; wrapped in bright pink a baby flies through the air as the train hurtles through pastoral landscapes.