Questions I am Asked About the Holocaust

Wrap around cover and interior illustrations for Young Reader’s edition of text by Hedi Fried. Published by Scribble (2023)

A young readers’ edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust.

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily terror at the camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labour before being released at the end of the war.

After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened.

This is a deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.

An illustration of a man and woman sitting in a room, reading. Behind them, there is a large window with curtains showing a building decorated with swastika flags and banners with swastikas. The scene reflects Nazi symbolism.
Book cover titled 'Questions I am asked about the Holocaust' by Heidi Fried, illustrated by Laila Ekboir, in a young readers edition. The cover features an illustration of a young girl with shoulder-length dark hair, surrounded by green vines and leaves.
Jewish family forced out of their homes and into a ghetto, and eventually onto the trains that took them to Auschwitz
A hand-drawn illustration of four female Auschwitz prisoners standing in front of a barbed wire fence, viewed between two women holding hands.
Starving prisoners in Auschwitz describe recipes to each other. One woman is talking about the process of making of making stuffed cabbage.
A family of three, a man, woman, and young girl, walking together through a green park with trees and grass.
Illustration of protestors walking down the street, seen through a spider web, surrounded by plants with pink and dark brown flowers and a black widow closing in on the protesters.
A woman with pink hair wearing a green shirt holding a lit candle in her hands.
Illustration of a diverse group of children looking up at a dove carrying an olive branch.