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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
3) In the garden of the righteous: the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the Garden of the Righteous chronicles extraordinary acts at a time when the moral choices were stark, the threat immense, and the passive apathy of millions predominated. Deeply researched, it focuses on ten remarkable stories. These heroes provided hiding places, participated in underground networks, refused to betray their neighbors, and secured safe passage to save the persecuted. They repeatedly defied authorities and risked their lives,...
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
168 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís 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
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa's bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war. With no hope in sight and supplies dwindling, Anna finds herself taking care of an orphaned baby. With a courage she didn't know she had, Anna...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nazi forces invaded Holland in 1940 and began rounding up Jews, Corrie ten Boom, her sister Betsie, and their elderly father risked their lives to save as many as possible. A hidden room was secretly built in their home where the oppressed Jews took refuge until a Gestapo raid put an end to their operation. For their 'crimes,' Corrie and Betsie were sent to the notorious concentration camp at Ravensbruck, where they suffered relentless cruelty.
"Featuring...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they couldn't abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a...
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2004, ©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
273, 16, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When word of the Nazi plot to arrest Denmark's Jews leaks out, Christian families such as the Kosters band together to thwart the impending raid by aiding their Jewish neighbors in hiding.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The "extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler--the "female Oskar Schindler"--who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation to a concentration camp. Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place, the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but also a community center, this hive of activity was an ideal temporary hiding place for escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages, including children....
19) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
20th anniversary limited edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (196 min.) : sound and black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio. When the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape. Stefania embarks on a dangerous course: protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
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