Genre: Children, Biography, Holocaust
Source: I own a copy
When Ela Stein was a young child she and many other family members were shipped to Terazin. This was a Czech ghetto. Shortly before they were shipped to Terazin her father was taken away for expressing his opinion about Hitler. That was the last that Ela saw of her father. In the ghetto her mother made a hard choice to send Ela and her sister to a barrack that was specifically for girls around her age. The living conditions were somewhat better and they received a little more food. The girls in room 28 formed a tight group. Soon someone decided they were going to present an opera. They practiced and practiced. At one point the Nazis used their production for propaganda. This book is a book that shows us what friendship and music can do to help people survive. It was a ray of hope in their lives. This is a short book to read, but filled with so much information and lots of pictures to help understand.
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