Barbara Lowell

Your current subscription allows you to be actively logged in on up to three (3) devices simultaneously. Click on continue below to log out of other sessions and log in on this device. by Barbara Lowell (text) & illus. by Elke Boschinger Holiday House. Nov. 2026. 40p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780823459674. Gr 2-4 COPY ISBN Gr 2-4–Many thousands of years ago in what is now Spain, an artist entered a cave and began to draw with charcoal and pigments.

Gisel­la Perl was an extra­or­di­nary woman. She was a trail­blaz­ing physi­cian and infer­til­i­ty researcher; a wife, a moth­er, a Jew, and a pris­on­er of the Nazis in the 1940s. Her mem­oir, I Was a Doc­tor in Auschwitz, was first pub­lished in 1948 (and re-released by Lex­ing­ton Press in 2019) and offers a heart­break­ing but impor­tant record of life in the death camps.

“When you have to fight, you have to fight. You can­not become untrue to your­self. You can­not fool your­self either. This is what we believed in. We did what we had to do, what we could do. No more and no less.” ‑Jan­ny Brilleslijper “It’s a real­ly old house, you do real­ize?” The real­tor looked at us with raised eye­brows, a fru­gal smile on his lips. We stood in the orchard and looked around, in awe. We were locked in by nature in full bloom.