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Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
c2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hiding Edith tells the true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi invasion of France. Edith's story is remarkable not only for her own bravery, but for the bravery of those that helped her: An entire village, including its mayor and citizenry, heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. The children all went to the local school, roamed the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2008
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's harrowing fourteen-month existence as a Jewish-Polish survivor who found refuge in the sewers of Lvov and was helped by Leopold Socha, who risked his life to bring food and supplies to her family.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances.
Series
Collector's Edition (Life (Chicago Ill.) volume 17, no. 9 (May 12, 2017)
Publisher
Life Books, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
9) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Learn about Anne Frank's life in hiding during World War II and how her remarkable diary went on to become one of the most influential books about the Holocaust"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Based on many oral histories taken from child survivors of the Holocaust, the author focuses on the experiences of young Jewish children from their earliest encounters with anti-Semitism to their enslavement in labor camps.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis. Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes ; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years-a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice--until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give...
15) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Celina Karp Biniaz was just eight years old when the Germans invaded her homeland of Poland in 1939. Over the next six years, the child from Krakow endured the Holocaust as the Nazis took away her schooling and civil rights, then herded her and her family into a ghetto. Life grew worse when the ghetto was liquidated, and the family was sent to Plaszów, a slave labor/concentration camp where they lived in constant fear, witnessing unspeakable horrors....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
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