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Hansel and Gretel in a Concentration Camp

Posted on February 11, 2019 by forstegrupp

Jane Yolen has written the novel Mapping the Bones about Jewish children surviving the terrors of occupied Poland and a concentration camp and she uses the structural framework of the fairy tale of “Hansel and Gretel.” In both stories, the … Continue reading →

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