{"id":1660,"date":"2012-11-08T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:03:04","slug":"making-bombs-for-hitler-the-book-shelf-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/making-bombs-for-hitler-the-book-shelf-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Bombs for Hitler: The Book Shelf review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thursday, November, 08, 2012 &#8211; 1:01:00 AM<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"Thursday, November, 08, 2012 - 1:01:00 AM The Book Shelf \u2013 Nov. 8\">The Book Shelf \u2013 Nov. 8<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Making Bombs for Hitler<\/strong>, By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, 160 pages. @ SPL: J FIC Skryp<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Making Bombs for Hitler brings to light one of the lesser-known aspects of World War II and the Holocaust \u2013 slave labourers, often teenagers or young people in their early 20s. Captured by Nazi soldiers in Russia, especially in the Ukraine, they were brought to Germany and forced to perform dangerous work from dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as \u201cexpendable,\u201d they were shot if they became too sick to work. In Marsha Skrypuch\u2019s story, Lida was one of the youngest slave labourers. When she was taken by Nazi soldiers, Lida was separated from her parents and her younger sister and sent to a labour camp. Surviving on a meager daily portion of bread and thin soup, and clothed in only a thin dress, Lida survived the long days of hard work only through luck, resourcefulness and the desire to find her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Then, with a group of other girls, she was assigned the dangerous work of constructing bombs that would be used by the Nazis to kill allied soldiers and civilians. How Lida survived the terrible days which followed was later a mystery to her.<\/p>\n<p>But she did survive, barely, and was later rescued by allied soldiers, only to find that she could not go home. Joseph Stalin regarded anyone who had been captured by the Nazis to be a Nazi. Such people were either killed or sent to work camps in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>Making Bombs for Hitler is a companion book to writer Marsha Skrypuch\u2019s award-winning Stolen Child, which relates the story of Lida\u2019s sister, Larissa. Both of these stories, told with sensitivity and compassion, are based on historical fact.<\/p>\n<p>** Recommended for ages nine to 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<em> Sally Hengeveld, librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November, 08, 2012 &#8211; 1:01:00 AM The Book Shelf \u2013 Nov. 8 Making Bombs for Hitler, By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, 160 pages. @ SPL: J FIC Skryp Making Bombs for Hitler brings to light one of the lesser-known aspects of World War II and the Holocaust \u2013 slave labourers, often teenagers or young people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/making-bombs-for-hitler-the-book-shelf-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Bombs for Hitler: The Book Shelf review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}