Describes the history behind Hanukkah and the ways it is celebrated.

Traces the history of anti-Semitism from biblical times through the twelve years of the Nazi era, 1933-1945, and describes Hitler's plans to annihilate European Jews by focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Also discusses the continuing effort to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

This slender volume walks the reader through thousands of years of history to learn about the sacred city of Jerusalem.