No Pretty Pictures

Anita (Kempler) Lobel, the illustrator of such books as On Market Street and the author-illustrator of Away from Home , tells the story of her childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hidden by a Catholic family, the Jewish Lobel (then Kempler) and her brother were eventually discovered by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. After the war, the siblings were rescued by the Swedish Red Cross and sent to Stockholm, where they were reunited with their parents. The Kempler family lived in Sweden until Anita was 16, at which point they immigrated to the United States. Illustrated with photographs. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.