Ross Blanche

 

Title- Rose Blanche 
Author/Retold- Christopher Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti 
Illustrated by Roberto Innocenti 
Genre- Historical Fiction
Grade level- 4th-8th Grade

The story starts of a Girl Named Rose Blanche and she lived in a small town in Germany. Many trucks of soliders ran through her town. It was like any other day but more and more trucks rumbled through. One day, a truck stopped in the middle of the road and a boy ran from the truck. The mayor of the town stopped him and gave him to the German solider. The truck left but Rose followed it. She followed it the edge of town and through the woods. She she saw saw a barbed wire fence and children in black and white uniforms stood there. They were hungry and she gave them a piece of bread. She went back everyday and brought food. She realized some of the children had stars on their shirts. One morning the whole town started to flee, but Rose Blanche was no where to be found. She was trying to find the prison but the place had changed. There were soliders in the woods and there was a gun shot. Men of different colored uniforms came and they spoke a different language. Later, Rose Blanche’s mother looked for her, but never found her. 

This story paints the gruesome story of what happened in the Holocaust. It also shows how some Germans were sincere to the people and wanted to love and protect them. At times, this story is a hard story to stomach, but it is the truth of what happened in WWII. I recommend this book for 8th grade and up, but is at the reading level of a fourth grader. This book is a great discussion starter about the Holocaust and WWII.


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