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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A Dutch Jewish girl describes the more than two years she spent hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning author Johanna Reiss’s own childhood during the Holocaust. Now with a beautiful new cover and revised author’s note. When the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Annie was only eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger....
Publisher
Choices, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A look at four Jewish Israelis who are working for peace and for the rights of Palestinian Arabs.
A documentary about Jewish peace activists who face skepticism and criticism from their fellow Israeli citizens. A Rabbi, a soldier, a grandmother, and an anarchist, four very different Israelis whom share a common goal: to achieve peace in the Middle East and end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Undeterred, they promote a peaceful...
3) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
"A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For the Jewish people, the span of years from 1933-1945, represents one of the most devastating in their three-thousand year history. It is often called in Hebrew Shoah, which is best translated as "devastation." The Roma and Sinti peoples named it the Porrajmos, the "great devouring." In English it has come to be referred to as the Holocaust, an expression that implies not only the utter terror and destruction of that time but the uniqueness of the...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "this dying hell"-the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Inseparable is the vivid account of one family's struggle to survive the Holocaust. In the camp, the children ran from SS soldiers, making it a game...
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
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Series
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
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Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial work on the harrowing fate of children in the Nazi extermination camps"--
"The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 children and juveniles were deported to Auschwitz, only 750...
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Publisher
HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The profoundly moving and deeply intimate true story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and, ultimately, to Britain"--
"The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in fact born Fritz Brandes....
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Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fifteen journeys (fourteen of them inside Poland) over six years, 1940-1946. The traveler is a young girl, who we meet at age seven. Along the way, she loses her home, her family, her name, her hair, and finally, her fear.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years. In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry, in spite of his having confessed his own...
18) Obras completas
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Una recopilación magistral que contextualiza la importancia que tuvo la escritura para la supervivencia física y espiritual de Anne Frank, y talla sus palabras en la memoria. El Diario de Anne Frank es una de las lecturas más conocidas sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, gracias a él, la memoria de su protagonista sigue más vigente que nunca. Cientos de miles de personas visitan cada año el museo de la Casa de Anne Frank, en Ámsterdam, para...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A stunning memoir of a mother and daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith.
A memoir recounting how the author and her mother faked their deaths and fled Budapest after the Nazis occupied the city. With forged papers obtained from a black marketeer, they escaped to the countryside in the guise of a servant girl and her illegitimate child. Relates the story of their harrowing lives there and her mother's desperate...
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