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1) One candle
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
3) One candle
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
HOLIDAY COLLECTION. Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Language
English
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael's life and how others in his family from Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim Americans are a reality. Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri, lives in this world, and though she has strong opinions on almost everything, she isn't concerned with the internments because she doesn't know any Muslims. But when she happens upon a Muslim fugitive in hiding, she finds herself reconsidering her assumptions about a person she has been taught...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
xvi, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatic account by one of the few survivors born in North Korea's infamous political prison camps, describings the brutal conditions he was forced to endure as a child, his witnessing of his family's executions, and his final, harrowing escape.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
12) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
387 pages, 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Auschwitz twins volume 1
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts having nightmares about smokestacks and doctors, Naomi is gripped by fear - the fear of a mother who realizes her daughter is in grave danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses of the future, and she has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that something evil is coming."--Back cover.
14) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
Auschwitz volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
16) 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
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
417 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
416 pages : 25 scattered b&w photos; 2 b&w maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in the notorious Auschwitz prison camp only to be separated after the end of the war, and how they were miraculously reunited 70 years later.