Publisher's Synopsis
From the author of ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR, comes CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: DEAR ESTHER by Richard Rashke.In October 1943, Esther Terner and 300 other Jews escaped from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in eastern Poland. It was the biggest escape of WWII and the subject of ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR. That book, and movie based on it, brought Esther many invitations to speak in public schools. Her courageous story generated hundreds of letters from children expressing their love, concern and outrage. Those letters became the inspiration for the play, DEAR ESTHER. Historic Heroines is pleased to publish a collection of those heartfelt letters, poems and drawings school children sent Esther along with the play DEAR ESTHER. CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: DEAR ESTHER is a powerful testament to Esther's Terner's strength and the empathy of the children she touched.