Uri Shulevitz, a polish-born children’s book author and illustrator who survived a harrowing childhood traversing Europe to escape the Nazis, and wove those experiences into his works, died on Feb. 15 in Manhattan. He was 89.

Mr. Shulevitz published more than 40 books. He received a Caldecott Medal and other Caldecott honors. A painter as well as an illustrator, he exhibited his work in numerous galleries and museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jewish Museum in New York. The New York Times Book Review ranked his book, titled Chance, among the 25 best children’s book of 2020, and it cited Mr. Shulevitz in lists of the 10 best-illustrated children’s books of the year in 1978, 1979 and 1997.