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Canonical name: Boas, Jacob
Other names: BOAS, Jacob
Birthdate: 1943
Gender: male
Nationality: Netherlands (birth)
Canada
Birthplace: Westerbork, Netherlands
Places of residence: Westerbork Concentration Camp, Netherlands
Portland, Oregon, USA
Education: McGill University
University of California, Riverside
Occupations: historian
writer
translator
Short biography: Jacob Boas was born to a Jewish family in the Westerbork transit camp in The Netherlands, the same Nazi camp to which Anne Frank was sent before she was deported to Bergen-Belsen. He survived World War II to emigrate with his family to Canada in 1957. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 1965, and his M.A. in modern European history from the University of California, Riverside in 1969, followed by his Ph.D. in 1977. Dr. Boas has spent many years studying and writing about the Holocaust. He has served as the director of education and research at the Holocaust Center of Northern California in San Francisco.

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We are witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who… by Jacob Boas

This book consists of five diaries of teenagers who were killed in the Holocaust: David Rubinowicz, Yitzhak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Eva Heyman and Anne Frank. It is so very interesting to read how each of the teens viewed what was happening around them and to them. The five diaries are compared in the final chapter and that is really quite compelling. These children all started keeping diaries in the early or mid-teens until they were brought to an extermination camp and killed. It is also very intriguing to know what these teens were thinking about, what kept them going, how their thought process worked during this difficult time. I have read Anne Frank's diary, but this book compares her situation and her entries to the other teens and that sheds some different perspectives on it. These teens seem much older than their years and of course their final entries are very sad indeed as we know what those final entries mean.… (more)

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bnbookgirl | 2 other reviews | Jan 13, 2014 |

We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who… by Jacob Boas

An examination of the Holocaust through the eys of 5 teenagers who kept diaries before their deaths at the hands of the Nazis. Anne Frank is, of course, one of these, but her experiences are compared and contrasted with the other 4 teens who saw different sides of the Death Machine that was Hitler's Germany. This is the first time I have seen Anne put into context with others of her generation. I found the whole book to be riveting.

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MerryMary | 2 other reviews | Sep 23, 2008 |

We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who… by Jacob Boas

Decent book, im reading it in school for information on the Holocaust and its perdy good. By the way Go to youtube and look up RayWilliamJohnsen HE IS BEAST!! =3 you will love him.
When i first saw him i was sitting in class pertending to be working... it was so funny that i was crying, my tummy hurt and i was on the floor... I got in so much troble ;) have fun!!!

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