Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust, authored by Joshua Greene, will soon be turned into a live-action limited TV series.

LA’s Amblin Television (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous) has optioned the book and plans to co-produce its screen adaptation with Scholastic Entertainment (Clifford the Big Red Dog) and LA-based Solo One Productions.

Signs of Survival recounts the harrowing real-life experience of a Jewish family living in 1940s Czechoslovakia. Renee Hartman is the only hearing member of her all-deaf family, and must constantly be on alert for the sound of Nazis nearby. After their parents are captured, she and her sister go on the run, but they are eventually apprehended and taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The memoir is based on first-hand testimonies from both Renee and Herta. It’s aimed at middle-grade readers, but the producers say the TV series will target a family audience and try to encourage “intergenerational co-viewing.”

Actor Marlee Matlin (pictured) will executive produce with Jack Jason from Solo One. Matlin, who is deaf and Jewish, said in a release that she was drawn to the project because she had been looking to develop a never-before-told story of the Holocaust.

Amblin TV presidents Darryl Frankand Justin Falvey and SVP Alex Maggioni are also attached as EPs, along with Scholastic Entertainment president Iole Lucchese, SVP and GM Caitlin Friedman and VP of TV development Jef Kaminsky.

This project joins around 40 others on Scholastic’s development slate, including live-action adaptations of picture book Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation (with Elizabeth Banks’ prodco Brownstone) and kidlit series The 39 Clues (with Amblin and Netflix).

On the animation side of things, Scholastic is working on an Eva the Owlet series, based on its bestselling Owl Diaries books for five- to eight-year-olds. This project was greenlit by Apple TV+ in May. Tween book series The Tyrell Show is also moving from page to screen in collaboration with Lion Forge Animation.

Image courtesy of Meagan Shuptar.