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Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done with her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. But when she’s not mired in self-loathing,...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her panic-stricken family flees the encroaching Nazi armies, Tzili is left behind to fend for herself. At first seeking refuge with the local peasants, she is eventually...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II, take refuge in the forest where they learn to forage and survive, soon meeting and helping other fugitives fleeing for their lives.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Yanek wanders the countryside with Grandpa Sergei--the blind former Ukrainian army commander to whom the boy has been entrusted by his Jewish father--avoiding the horrors of war and learning how to fend for himself and how to care for others.
"The second and last children's book by the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and Hebrew-language author of the award-winning Adam & Thomas. A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers,...
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