"We Were Not Like Other People" a novel by Ephraim Sevela

"We Were Not Like Other People", a children's novel by Ephraim Sevela



I read this book in 1997, during a time of reading books about WWII.



A young Russian boy, Jewish and the son of Red Army officers, is separated from his parents, and their privilege and protection, he spends the 6 years of World War II traveling from Siberia to Germany. Along the years and miles, many events bring him to learn how to survive during this time. With the apparent defeat of the Nazis and their allies, our young man travels back to where he believes his family's home should be, to only be met with many surprises. Will he find what he is looking for?

I believe that some of these events were auto-biographical. This is just one of many fictionalized accounts of WW II that are worth looking at with children, as so many of the authors recounted first hand from their life experiences during this time frame.