Published by Orca Books in Victoria, The Whirlwind follows the plight of 15-year-old Benjamin Friedman and his family after they arrive legally in Seattle to escape from Nazi Germany in 1941. In her novel set in Seattle and Vancouver, Carol Matas recounts the severe prejudice against German Jewish refugees and immigrants in North America during World War II in The Whirlwind (Orca 2007), one of twelve Matas titles that deal specifically with the Holocaust. After all, if there was a God, how could God permit such cruelty? From then on I basically tried to avoid the topic, doing no reading on it, avoiding anything about it because it was too upsetting." - Carol Matas (author of twelve books about the Holocaust) "When I was a child I learned about the Holocaust, became so distraught and upset at the cruelty, that it was probably the beginning of my loss of faith.
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