Books like We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

This book has ripped my heart out of my chest and put it back in many, many pieces. I forgot how depressed I get after reading these books. All five stories had me nearly crying, Eva's story completely broke me. You had five different Jewish teens who lived in different parts of Europe. All their countries ended up under Nazi occupation. All five were part of the 6 million Hitler and the Nazis murdered. Every story was different and very eye opening. The story that probably that hurt my the most was Moshe's. They all equally broke my heart but this one really hit with a hammer. Moshe's was an Orthodox Jew, which means that he did not belive that Jesus was the Messiah. I was so close to tears many times while reading his story. It was heart breaking to read his writing. He was hoping and praying that through this terrible, awful event that God was finally going to send the Messiah. It hurt my heart so much to read that. Another thing that broke my heart was in Yitzhak's story. He was in a ghetto. In his particular ghetto, you were required to have a colored slip of paper to live. It hurt so much to read how people sold out their wives and families just to obtain this color slipped. It was hurtful to read that human beings were dedicated if they could live based on if they carried a color slip of paper or not. Even though this was a very depressing book, it also was super eyeopening and a book I believe that everyone should read. In Holocaust/WW2 book terms, it was not graphic at all. This book should be a required read in either high school or college. If you can please read this book. It will make you depressed but you will get yours eyes opened to just how horrific the Holocaust was from a first hand experience of teenagers.