Making Bombs for Hitler

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Recommendation for Age: 8 years and Above

When the Nazis shoot their mother and the Jews she had been hiding, the Nazi kidnap Lida, and Larissa, 8 and 5 year old girls from their Grandmother's house in Ukraine. The Nazi take them to Germany by cattle car along with other Ukrainian children to a slave labor camp.

A few days later, on Lida's 9th Birthday, March 14th 1943, she and Larissa are seperated. She lies about her age, 9 to 13. Having noticed the younger children that go to the hospital never come back. She lives to find Larissa...