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Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Language
English
Description
A beautifully rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by ?lvaro Sarraseca. It's been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen's home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max's fam-ily, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max and his sister, Zena, had Papa with them . . . until two months ago, when the Nazis took him away....
2) Resistance
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
5) Poland
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
10) Feathers
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
When the town bath house burns down, the foolish citizens of Chelm worry about the safety of the money they must collect to build a new one.
11) The Christmas spider: a puppet play from Poland & other traditional games, crafts and activities
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books in cooperation with the U.S. Committee for UNICEF
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
Step-by-step illustrated directions on how to make traditional Polish crafts such as painted eggs and paper cutting.
14) Uprising
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes afterword, author's note, sources, and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
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.
19) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble Books/Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs present the life of Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
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