Why is Great Grandma So Sad? Discovering the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child - Softcover

Susan E. Heagy is founder and president of Abundant Hope International (AHI), a non-profit organization offering relational and humanitarian aid assistance to Holocaust Survivors in Israel. Providing education to both the public and private sector, Ms. Heagy is instrumental in developing global relationships with Survivors. Ms. Heagy has devoted her entire career since 2004 to the philanthropic and nonprofit sector encouraging volunteers to join AHI in assisting the Survivors. She is available to speak on request, educating about the aspects not generally known of the Holocaust of WWII. She also shares the personal war accounts of the individual Survivors she has met both in public forums and in written form, all with the intent to make sure they are never forgotten.

Having seen Corrie Ten-Boom s Hiding Place , and read The Diary of Anne Frank and others; I am well familiar with Holocaust stories. This book fits squarely in that genre, differing in that its target audience is children ages seven on up. I quickly add that if this were my first exposure to this unspeakable wickedness it would have been a huge psychological blow. I wept several times in this little book, and it frequently flashes through my mind now after having read it. I would only recommend it to children who have talked with their parents about these horrific crimes against the Jewish People. If you think your child is ready for this kind of exposure talk with them about this book before, during and after their reading of it. You both will learn a lot about the Holocaust. In addition to the beautiful words, the illustrations were magnificent. --Robert Carpenter, DDS, FAGD, MAGD, Lepidopterist, Nature Photographer- Kerrville, TX

This awfull history, translated in a language for children to grasp what has really happened. --Brecht Oosting, Tour guide Corrie ten Boom House, The Netherlands

As a journalist, during the last 5 years I am filming the stories of Holocaust Survivors here in Israel. I heard hundreds of them within this period. While reading this story I could hardly believe that it is the story that Susan wrote, and it is not someone`s personal life-story. Because I read every word of it many times in the sad eyes of Hannas, who Survived Ghetto and Concentration camps, and I saw such dolls in the hands of Sarahs, who pass the memory of their parents to future. Unfortunately, even today the Holocaust did not lost its relevance: extremism and neo-fascism still compels to remember the Holocaust. And I would like to say the words of gratitude to AHI organisation for staying with us in saving and broadcasting all over the world the live-stories of Holocaust Survivors, and personally to Susan Heagy for being able to show the pain of the whole nation in the story of one Jewish family, who went through the hell. Thanks for keeping the Memorial and saving the Names of the Holocaust Survivors! --Tamara Nersesyan Journalist, Director of TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network, Russia) Israel