Nine Spoons: A Chanukah Story

A wonderful, if tear-jerking Chanukah story. A true story as related on behalf of the author's grandmother, this tells of a group of women in a concentration camp who were determined to create a proper Chanukah menorah for their own use and for the sake of the children imprisoned with them. One of

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them, an artist, decides she can create a kosher menorah of spoons if the others can collect nine precious spoons for her use; together they gather the spoons one by one and are able to create a small light within an extraordinary darkness. For anyone asking the meaning and value of Chanukah, or hoping to add depth to their appreciation, I would recommend running to find this book.

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This carefully created picture book provides the ideal introduction to the Holocaust and the Jewish traditions that people continued to observe. The text is well done and beautifully illustrated. I enjoyed this though with a sense of melancholy since I knew that it was true with all its regrettable

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circumstances. I wish there never had to be a story of such tremendous suffering, but it's still well done for the event it illustrates.

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