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Child Al Confino, A: The True Story Of A Jewish Boy And His Mother In Mussolini's Italy (2010)

by Enrico Lamet(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1283474824 (ISBN13: 9781283474825)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Adams Media Corporation

review 1: Eric Lamet is a fabulous story teller and recounts his childhood living with his mother in Mussolini's Italy during Hitler's reign of terror. This precocious child, living in a world comprised mainly of adults, learned life's lessons through observation rather than in schools. He and his mother clung to their standard of life and education even while living in the most backward of rural environments. There is more to the plight of Jews than the death camps we have heard so much about. This is a story of the internment of Jews that we should all know. A MUST read. I LOVE this book.
review 2: A book with a different perspective on WWII. A Jewish family from Vienna is forced out of the city (and gets out in time to avoid the holocaust) and finds themselves "impri... moresoned" in a small Italian village for the remainder of the war. Though they weren't in jail, they couldn't leave the city and survived on meager supplies of food and essentials. I enjoyed the description of this small village with all its characters. It was interesting how this young boy befriended a Catholic priest (and even sang in the church choir as an alter boy), Italian soldiers (who taught him how to shoot a machine gun) and an educated Sicilian (who became his step-father). I wouldn't call the book a page turner, but it was interesting. less

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