Angel's Teeth

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Pub Date Jan 28 2025 | Archive Date Feb 25 2025

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Description

Real stories and events from Holocaust mingle with magical symbolism which will encourage children and pupils to think about difficult periods of history.

Most children will respond to the idea of being relatively powerless, or having to fit their lives into what can sometimes seem a big, often confusing, messy world controlled by adults. There are moments in history which now must be re-presented. This book shows the power of love and secrets which must be shared and explored between children and adults through powerful storytelling. These stories also challenge many of the misconceptions about the Holocaust.

Angel’s Teeth is set in a concentration camp outside Prague, in the former Czechoslovakia. The protagonist, Ruth and her parents will survive the Holocaust. This story shows some of the humanity of some of the Nazi soldiers. In addition, it shows resilience of Jewish people in the darkest times.  It also explains how Ruth’s father, like many Jews, had previously fought for the Germans in the First World War.

Real stories and events from Holocaust mingle with magical symbolism which will encourage children and pupils to think about difficult periods of history.

Most children will respond to the idea of...


A Note From the Publisher

Debbie Moss is a Freelance Holocaust Educator for the National Holocaust Centre and Museum and the Holocaust Educational Trust. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham University and was awarded Highly Commended for her poetry and her short story ‘The Porcelain Torah’ in the 2023 King Lear Prizes.

Debbie Moss is a Freelance Holocaust Educator for the National Holocaust Centre and Museum and the Holocaust Educational Trust. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham University and was...


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A fast read but written beautifully. I have a very keen interest in the German history. The story was sad but kinda happy too. I absolutely adore this book. I would love to get a physical copy for my son who I homeschool. He would LOVE this book since he has German and English descent. He loves history just as I do. The book is a recommended book to read and the illustrations are just as beautiful as the.story.

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This is a beautiful short story about a child called Ruth and her experiences working in the crematorium in a concentration camp during World War II. I read it twice before deciding not to focus on trying to understand who the angel was and to just appreciate (it's not really a subject to enjoy) the beauty of the tale and the perfect, stark illustrations. The story is followed by a bank of useful resources to use with children or for your own further reading and I will definitely be exploring these. I will also be recommending the book to our English Lead as a text we could use during our WWII work.

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Thank you so much to Troubador Publishing Ltd and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

This was a very unique tale about the holocaust, sharing a story of a young girl named Ruth who though in some of the worst conditions never really saw the truth of what was happening, until she made friends with an Angel at the camp.

I really liked learning about this story, it really was very different to those that you read usually on this subject. It gives you a good glimpse into a concentration camp, the difficulties of it and what it was like as a child within one. I liked that it shared about her and her mother’s struggles, the separation from her father, her father who fought in the previous war for them.

The story takes you into a slight fantasy area when young Ruth sees an Angel appear who helps her, provides her with things that she needs and does it’s best to be there for the women working at the crematorium. Though did young Ruth really see this Angel whilst actually at the camp or is it added to the story for effect, or is it symbolism for something else? Unfortunately that doesn’t get explained in the notes at the end which I would have loved to known honestly.

I loved that we had photographs of Ruth at the back seeing that she survived it all, I’m sad though that we didn’t get any more extra details about her stay at the camp, the true factors of it. I think a small segment at the back would have been really nice to learn more about this woman that once as a child was held in the camp.

This is a great read for those studying this war, it’s got a very fresh perspective on the events, set in a location that you don’t usually see, with an almost fantasy twist with the appearing Angel. I really enjoyed getting to learn something new of this horrific war.

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It's rare to find a rather lighthearted book about the Holocaust, but Angel's Teeth by Debbie Moss manages just that. Set in a camp where the furnaces are burning, the story describes how a young girl in the camp manages to find hope among the ashes.

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