Catalog Search Results
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.
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.
11) 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
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
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books for Young Readers, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
339 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at a world-renowned conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister, Frina, and their entire family are removed from their home by the Nazis and forced on a long, cold death march. When her father bribes a guard, Zhanna escapes with nothing more than her musical talent, her beloved Chopin sheet music,...
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
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
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sis honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, sixteen-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will she be brave? Join Hedy on her journey-where she encounters good fortune and misfortune, a kind helper and cruel soldiers, a reunion and a tragedy-and...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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...