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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
WND Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 75 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true account of Holocaust horror and also of God's mercy on a young girl who spent her teenage years desperately fighting for survival yet learning to trust in God.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust--from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In early 1940 Chaim Herszman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless, and determined, Chaim goes on scavenging missions outside the wire fence--where one day he is forced to kill a Nazi guard to protect his secret. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. Chaim avoids grenade and rifle fire on the Russian border, shelters with a German family in the Rhineland, falls...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. After the war her heroism was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years--until three high school girls from an economically depressed rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's...
48) Catherine's war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
49) They went left
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
xiv, 364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
Germany, 1945. The Gross-Rosen concentration camp have been liberated, but nothing feels over to Zofia Lederman. Three years ago she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else-- parents,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Publisher
Long Trail Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. After the war her heroism was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years-- until three high school girls from an economically depressed rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children. Her secret list of the children's real identities was kept safe, buried in two jars under a tree in war-torn Warsaw. An inspiring story of courage and compassion, this biography includes a list of resources, source notes, and an index.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in their school. Then, in 1944, ten-year-old Eva and her family were deported to Auschwitz. At its gates, Eva and Miriam were separated from their parents and other siblings, selected as subjects for Dr. Mengele's...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
76 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers"--
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This book offers insight into the Holocaust and the Polish resistance by entwining the stories of two survivors, Lou Frydman and Jarek Piekalkiewicz. As teenagers during World War II, the two men defied daunting odds, lost nearly everything and everyone in the war, and yet summoned the courage to start new lives in the United States.--From book jacket.
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