A review by redhickory
The Children's Block: Based on a True Story by an Auschwitz Survivor by Otto B. Kraus

1.0

DNF. I feel awful not finishing a book about Auschwitz but this was too slow and plodding for me. I have read a lot about the war and recently read "the Librarian of Auschwitz" (written about Otto's wife's experiences) and was hoping this book (written about the same section of the camp) would add more depth to the story of the teachers and children who spent their days there - it did not, it was a long list of events with little linking them. It lacked a storng narrative and did not tell us enough about the people it depicted (even of they were amalgam characters).
There are other books which depict the horrors of the camps and tell the stories of those killed and those who survived in a more evocative way, allowing us to try to learn from history and to remember them.