What the Night Sings by Vesper StamperMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Loved reading this fictional account of what life was life after the surviving the concentration camps for teenagers. Young Gerta was being trained to become an opera singer before the war, but now she just plays her father's viola. She's floundering like so many of the survivors--what do you do when you have no family left? What do you do when you return to your hometown in Poland only to be spit on and beaten up?
Ugh...the hatred for the Jewish people worldwide during/after the Holocaust is sickening. I can just hear German people saying "fake news!" and "I didn't know what those camps were like!" and "it's not our fault!" just like all the Trump supporters are saying now about "those brown job stealers." Ugh. Compassion, folks. Get some. And give books like this to kids before they are hardened like their parents.
This is more of a lower YA book--there's violence, periods, and making out, but not much else.
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