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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
5) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reprints the Definitive Edition authorized by the Frank estate, in a volume that features a new introduction by National Book Award finalist Francine Prose and a chronology of Anne Frank's life and times.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A European orphan transplanted to New York, Doriel is shaped by the pain of the deaths of his parents following World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, and seeks solace in an intense study of Judaism and a search for the secrets of his mother's life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering an old and strikingly unusual musical composition that causes her to black out and has a violently transformative effect on her daughter, Julia Ansdell travels to Venice to find the man behind the music and uncovers a dark secret dating back to the Holocaust.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks."-- Provided by publisher.
11) The forger
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 220 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the villagers send photos to their relatives overseas to wish them...
Author
Series
A Nick Flynn novel volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity ... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation...
16) This Rebel Heart
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated, however, sparking a series of protests that make her reconsider...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp&;mainly Jewish women and girls&;were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers.
This fashion workshop&;called the Upper Tailoring Studio&;was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant&;s wife, and patronized by...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reader may wish to bear in mind that much of this edition is based on the "b" version of Anne's diary, which she wrote when she was around fifteen years old. Occasionally, Anne went back and commented on a passage she had written earlier. These comments are clearly marked in this edition. Naturally, Anne's spelling and linguistic errors have been corrected. Otherwise, the text has basically been left as she wrote it, since any attempts at editing...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...