A review by williamsdebbied
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel

4.0

Anita Lobel writes her memoir describing her experiences during the Holocaust from a child's perspective. The first-person narrative is written with a sense of immediacy and vividness. Her story begins with her middle class home in Krakow, Poland. When the Nazis invade Poland, her father is forced to flee to Russia. Then Anita and her brother escape to a small town with their nanny. Finally, they end up back in Krakow, living in the ghetto with their mother before once again escaping with the nanny. After years of hiding and pretending not to be Jewish, they are finally rounded up and taken to a concentration camp.

Anita also describes what life was like after the war--as a refugee. Being liberated from the concentration camp was not the end of her journey and she describes the process that she and her surviving family members went through as they tried to pick up the pieces and start over in a new country.