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Language
English
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Description
"For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again--tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the various factors which led many of Germany's young people to pledge their loyalty and support to the dictator and join the Hitler Youth during his rise to power.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 419 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 Holland, childhood friends Josie and Eliese partner with a few other citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children awaiting deportation, but dangerous secrets could derail their mission.
10) My son's secret
Author
Series
Jews the Third Reich and a web of secrets volume Book 1
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My beautiful boy ... Created in love ... born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story - a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason ... as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
60 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving account of Jewish children from Nazi Germany during World War II that were placed on the Kindertransport to Britain to save their lives just weeks before the Nazis burned their orphanage down.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes how, at six years old and alone after her mother and grandmother do not return from the factory, she is passed from place to place where stories become her salvation and she must rely on strangers to escape the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
243 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of a young girl from a Polish ghetto who was sent to a series of concentration camps and survived the war after being placed on Schindler's List, finally marrying a fellow survivor.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Prof. Shaul Harel, formerly Charlie Hilsberg, who lost his shadow in 1942 at only five years old, when he was separated from his family and surroundings and saved from the furnaces of Auschwitz by the Belgian resistance. This book reveals his story, from his time as a "hidden child" in France and Belgium during the Holocaust, through his experiences in orphanages, his immigration to Israel, the serious injury he sustained in...
Author
Series
The Star and the Shamrock volume 1
Publisher
[Jean Grainger]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her husband doesn't come home one day, Ariella realises that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children's safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have. Thrown...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories in their own words of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences in the Terezin concentration camp, detailing how, despite sickness and loss, the adults tried to make the children's lives bearable and she managed to forge lifelong friendships. .
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
97 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.