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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reprints the Definitive Edition authorized by the Frank estate, in a volume that features a new introduction by National Book Award finalist Francine Prose and a chronology of Anne Frank's life and times.
2) 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
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 297 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a memoir set on the eve of World War I, the author describes growing up in a working-class town in northern England, where Jews and Christians were strictly divided, and how his sister's love for a Christian boy broke down the invisible social barrier.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edith Hahn, an outpsoken Jewish woman, was forced by the Gestapo into a slave labor camp. When she returned home, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. She changed her identity and emerged in Munich as Grete Denner, but she lived in constant, paralyzing fear of the Nazi's discovering her heritage.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a love story spanning two continents and three generations, the author journeys to the South of France to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement after escaping Nazi-occupied France.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
13) Mala's cat
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mala Szorer had a happy childhood in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest-- until she was twelve, and the German invasion begins. The village became a ghetto; her family and friends were reduced to starvation. Removing her yellow star, Mala risked sneaking to the surrounding villages to barter for food. Coming back to see her loved ones rounded up for deportation, warned to stay away, she walks away from everything...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the dynamic Emanuel brothers cites their achievements in medicine, politics, and Hollywood, offering insight into the family history, unique upbringing, and social atmosphere that influenced their lives.
16) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...