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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
"Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. No longer able to practice their religion,...
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed 'undesirable,' suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis...
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Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"So that we may never forget My Road to Remembrance presents a unique opportunity for readers to remember and honor those individuals who perished during the Holocaust. This book captures a great many of the memorials designed and erected to immortalize the lives taken, and it will inspire readers to consider human rights and history. Fred Katz presents these memorials, which attempt to teach us what can happen when unbridled hatred is allowed to...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"The Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag provide the context for this acclaimed examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, Tzvetan Todorov reconstructs a vivid portrait of the conduct of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Challenging the widespread view that moral life was extinguished in the extreme circumstances of the camps, he uncovers instead a rich moral universe,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent—which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world...
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Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Seventy years after he turned thirteen in a concentration camp, a man joins his beloved grandson in the Jewish ritual of coming of age when they are bar mitzvahed together.
"A coming of age story that includes three generations, with love. Grandpa was never bar mitzvahed; it was wartime, and life was difficult. It's been a regret his whole life. Many years later, it's his grandson's time to go through the Jewish ritual of coming of age. The father...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Sorale finds a heart-shaped book, her mother recounts her experiences living in Auschwitz prison camp.
Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother’s belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? And why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before? Fania’s...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Wachsmann offers an…integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims,...
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English
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"ECPA 2015 Christian Book Award Finalist! 2014 finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards! Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. As the Nazi war machine rolls across Europe, young Jacob Weisz is forced to flee his beloved Germany and join an underground resistance group in Belgium. But when a rescue operation goes horribly wrong, Jacob finds himself trapped in a crowded cattle car headed to southern Poland. Sentenced to hard labor in the Auschwitz...
Author
Series
Buchenwald trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Cable Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"I was only seventeen years old when the knock on our door came late one night. The French police barged in, arresting me and my father as members of the French Resistance. After months of incarceration in French prisons, two thousand inmates were jammed into twenty rail cars. Our destination was Buchenwald, the most horrific camp in Nazi Germany, where we were viewed by our SS keepers as expendable sub-humans and forced to work as slave laborers....
Author
Publisher
Paris Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Three girls come of age in the Nazi concentration camps and repeatedly save each other through their ingenuity, kindness, and acts of courage This autobiographical novel depicts the experiences of three girls coming of age in the Nazi concentration camps. Through Tania's eyes, we experience claustrophobic uncertainty, grief, terror, exhaustion, and Tania's sustaining hope, her ability to always see and experience beauty. As in The Diary of Anne Frank,...
Author
Series
The Buchenwald trilogy volume Vol. III
Publisher
Cable Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
How did a sophisticated, civilized nation like Germany sink into an abyss of degradation that had no bottom? How could the SS rulers of Buchenwald torture, starve, and murder defenseless prisoners? And how could Nazi doctors use the camp as their personal, ghoulish laboratory? Buchenwald: Hell on a Hilltop is a comprehensive examination of the depths of depravity into which the Third Reich sank.
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa,...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch...
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English
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"Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. Yet in the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark...
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