Greater than Angels. by Carol Matas. It is the early s, in Vichy France, and a number of Jewish teenagers, having lost nearly everything of their former lives and beliefs, are sitting on the porch of a Red Cross shelter and debating the existence of goodness in the world. One of the characters recalls what his father used to say on the. Carol Matas. Occupation. Author. Genre. Children's literature. Carol Matas is a Canadian writer. Carol Matas has had more than forty-five books for young people published over several decades, including SF, fantasy, historical and contemporary. Her novels often reflect a Jewish perspective, and her best-known are set during the Holocaust. · Find Greater Than Angels by Matas, Carol at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
Greater than angels by Carol Matas, unknown edition. Greater Than Angels. Carol Matas. Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. In the Face of Evil. In the autumn of , Anna Hirsch, her friends, and her family are rounded up by the Nazis and deported from Germany into France. They are placed in Gurs, a refugee camp where conditions are inhuman. I was told to do a book report on a Canadian author. I decided to do the report on Canadian author Carol Matas and one of her WWII novels. The librarian suggested "Greater Than Angels" I enjoyed the book very much. It was a great look into the things teenage Jews had to go through.
An unforgettable reminder of the resilience of human compassion, even in the face of the worst horrors of our history. In the autumn of , Anna Hirsch and her friends and family are rounded up by Nazis and deported to Gurs, a refugee camp in the south of France. Greater Than Angels, by Carol Matas, is a short novel telling the story of a group of children living their lives and trying to escape from the evil during the time of World War II. Though the story is fiction, this novel is based on a true story of the French village that hid the many Jewish children from the Nazis and helped to save their lives. Greater Than Angels: A Novel of the Civil War. After the War. Lisa's War. Buy this book. Amazon. Barnes Noble. Bookshop. IndieBound. Matas (Daniel's Story) again returns to the Holocaust as the.
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