Book Review: Louder Than Words

Louder Than Words

by Kathy Kacer

Annick Press Ltd.

Annick Press

Children’s Fiction , Historical Fiction

Pub Date 14 Apr 2020

I am reviewing a copy of Louder Than Words through Annick Press and Netgalley:

Life is not easy for Jewish People in the days of World War 2 throughout Europe, and the Ukraine is no different. Twelve year old Dina and her sisters find things getting even harder after their Father dies and there Mother has to work and their Non Jewish housekeeper finds herself caring for the children, trying to keep them safe from the Nazi’s. Dinah and her sisters have to depend on there housekeeper in ways that they could not have imagined when there Mother never comes home from the Marketplace and Dinah learns that her Mother was taken to the Ghetto.

Nina finds herself having to keep these children safe, even obtaining false identity papers for them.

Nina’s (Ludviga Pukas) story is a remarkable true story of how one young woman risked her own life to save the lives of three Children that were not her own, she died in 1984 at at the age of eighty two. In September.1994 ten years after her death she was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel, the highest honor that can be bestowed on…