Join author Peter Lantos to hear about his newest book, The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die: The Graphic Memoir.
It describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents were deported from a small Hungarian town to Bergen-Belsen. Along the way, unforgettable images flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows, but the adventure gradually turns into nightmare of starvation, freezing cold, disease and death. Peter's father dies in the concentration camp, while he and his mother survive.
Originally published as a biography for children in 2023, The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die was the Times Children’s Book of the Week, won the UK Literacy Association's Non-Fiction Book of the Year, shortlisted for the British Book Awards Children’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and reviewed to great acclaim.
Peter will be speaking about his experiences of the Holocaust that formed the basis of his books, and talk about the experience of seeing his story turned into a graphic novel.
Peter Lantos will be in conversation with Angela Gluck who has worked as a teacher, trainer and consultant to schools and local authorities. She is the author of over 40 books on aspects of religion and history, and broadcasts on these subjects. She devotes part of her work to teaching children, young people and adults in cross-communal settings. She is an active trustee of The Separated Child Foundation.
