Biography jacob boas

See More Reviews. List Stacks. Holocaust Narratives 1. Books Read in 1. By Award By Work. Best Fiction for Young Adults. CCBC Choices. Tayshas High School Reading List. Anne Frank. Livia Bitton-Jackson. Wendy Conklin. Irene Gut Opdyke. Milton Meltzer. Johanna Reiss. Ruud van der Rol. Jessica Larson. Ruth Minsky Sender. Gerda Weissmann Klein.

See All. Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer. Gerdy van der Stap Translator. Patricia C. McKissack Foreword. Arnan Oberski Translator.

Biography jacob boas

Add to Favorites. Author Gallery. Links Official home page. Helper Hub LibraryThing members improve authors by combining author names and works, separating out homonymous authors into separate identities, and more. Helper Hub. Inwhen Boas was 13, the family emigrated to Montreal, Canada, alarmed by renewed threats of war due to international tensions over the Suez Canal.

Canada had no draft, was easier to get into than the U. For Boas, the change was difficult at first, as he missed his friends and had to learn a new language. His parents found friends in the large Jewish community in Montreal, mostly among the other Dutch Jews there. However, he points out that survivors did not talk about the war till much later, noting that they had to process what had happened.

There was an elaborate formula of what everything was worth. By then, research was being done on the Holocaust, and he wrote his thesis on German ideas of self-perception from to Boas moved on to teach at Portland Community College and Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, and has written five books and a play about the Holocaust, with one more book forthcoming in I just found this out in when I visited and, for the first time, saw a plaque at that school about the children who had attended that school just a few years before me.

So even now I am just learning about things that happened that I did not know before. We have to keep our ability to think. So much comes at us and we have to be able to unravel it.