Trip in August

Reise im August is a book for young people by Gudrun Pausewang , in which the journey of the Jewish girl Alice to a concentration camp is described. It is transported in a cattle wagon , it describes the journey that all fellow prisoners experience crammed together like animals, starving and thirsty and under inhumane hygienic conditions. The book ends after the people have entered the shower with the sentence: "She raised her arms and opened her hands."

In 1993 the novel was on the list of recommendations for the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize of the State Agency for Civic Education in North Rhine-Westphalia , and in 1997 Gudrun Pausewang received the Birmingham Children's Book Award for it.

Web links

• Gudrun Pausewang: Reise im August , in: The annihilation of the European Jews as a subject of historical studies and an exhibition by the DHM