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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone--Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
4) Remembering: voices of the Holocaust : a new history in the words of the men and women who survived
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 351 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains a selection of transcripts taken from the sound archives of Britain's Imperial War Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Interviews of Holocaust survivors, refugees, families of the murdered and of survivors, aid workers and troops who liberated the camps are included.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
413 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II, this heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song is accompanied by magnificent full-color paintings by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hung to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim...
11) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
13) Austerlitz
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At fifteen, a boy named Dafydd Elias, adopted at four in 1939 and living in Wales, learns that his real name is Jacques Austerlitz. He becomes a student of architectural history, lives an ascetic life in London as a lecturer on art history, takes early retirement in 1991 and belatedly, very belatedly, pursues his past, which takes him to Czechoslovakia. In Prague, Austerlitz discovers that his parents were Jewish, that they shipped him away to safety,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
93 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on interviews with six Holocaust survivors, these first-person point of view stories relate living through the de-humanization and starvation in concentration camps and the industrial-scale mass murder in extermination camps.
18) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
19) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
20) London refrain
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 7
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xvii, 282 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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