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2) The search
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After recounting her experience as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, Esther, helped by her grandson, embarks on a search to discover what happened to her parents before they died in a concentration camp.
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: This young readers’ edition tells the remarkable story, largely forgotten until now, of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. It has already been optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This remarkable diary has become a world classic, which: . Is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war. . Offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive...
9) Annexed
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.
10) Paper hearts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
In Auschwitz Zlatka makes a birthday card for her best friend Fania. If Zlatka were caught making the card it would mean death. The birthday card also was a symbol of hope, defiance, and freedom.
12) Almost autumn
Author
Language
English
Description
As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann Rød, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.
Author
Publisher
Wellstone Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Janet Kessler, an adolescent girl and the child of Jewish immigrants, writes about her experiences and coming to grips with the brutality of World War II and anti-semitism in a small town in Wisconsin during the summer of 1943.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But...
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