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1281) Serendipity's footsteps
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"One special pair of shoes, crafted in Germany just before the Nazis came to power, makes its way through time and around the world to connect a string of owners"--
1282) The chosen
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular...
1283) A family secret
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared.
1285) The great dictator
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
1286) Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto
Author
Publisher
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of its scheduled demolition, a man unearths the secrets and history of a small lake house on the outskirts of Berlin that had been in his family since the 1930s and creates an intimate, first-person look into German history.
"In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Description
"Tilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versión femenina de Oskar Schindler. La historia de una mujer que tomó grandes riesgos para salvar a 2 500 niños de la muerte y la deportación en Polonia, durante la ocupación de los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En 1942, a una joven trabajadora social, Irena Sendler,...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the Final Solution" into effect with deliberate speed. Soros, a Jewish lawyer in Budapest, secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife, and his two sons following the German invasion of Hungary on March 19, 1944. In a narrative reminiscent of the great Primo Levi, Soros recounts his experiences...
1290) The Faberge secret
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is taken aback. What did these people do to deserve such brutality?...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Documents the Swedish diplomat's heroic actions during the Holocaust, and his mysterious death following Soviet imprisonment. In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, had one goal: to save as many Jews as possible from Nazi execution. Debra McArthur details the life of an extraordinary man who gave everything, including his life, in the service of humanity. In the face of overwhelming cruelty,...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the face of overwhelming odds, John of Gamala does his best to save God's temple, defending Jerusalem during the Roman siege and even facing Titus himself in hand-to-hand combat. He forges a relationship with the Roman leader that lasts until after the war. In spite of fighting a losing battle, John maintains his integrity and honor.
1294) Hidden on the high wire
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
In Nazi Germany, when her family's circus is forced to shut down and her father is taken away, young Jewish girl Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus where every day is a balancing act for survival.
"Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and...
Publisher
Direct Cinema Limited
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
The story of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit composed of Asian-American soldiers that helped liberate Dachau. It's also the story of two peoples--Jews and Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJAs)--who both experienced government sanctioned oppression, racism & prejudice during World War II. Former AJA soldiers & Jewish survivors now living in Hawaii share their personal memories of that era.
1296) Lost
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Description
"The internationally bestselling author of The German Girl delivers an unforgettable family saga of love and redemption during World War II, based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944"--
"El autor del bestseller internacional La niña alemana regresa con una inolvidable saga familiar de amor y redención durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, basado en hechos reales de la masacre de un pueblo francés por los nazis en 1944....
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