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22) Yellow star
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly.
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24) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
25) Schindler's list
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience-unearthing a remarkable story that becomes the subject of his magnum opus. At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet with his Dutch...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Artia Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Artia Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Francoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Francoise's...
35) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
36) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 p.: ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
37) The Nazi hunters
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities,...