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English
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"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
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.
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Language
English
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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 In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.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
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated biography of the young Jewish girl who, with her family and others, hid from the Nazis in an annex for two years before being betrayed and sent to a concentration camp.
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
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Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.