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Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--became the nerves of a wide-ranging...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
xviii, 348 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of Michael Bornstein--who at age 4 was one of the youngest children to be liberated from Auschwitz--and of his family"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 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
Pub. Date
[2020]
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
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends--but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Scholastic Press ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This compelling memoir takes listeners through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck-never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of discovery and persecution. A sobering reminder of the personal toll of the Holocaust on Jews during World...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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"--Provided by publisher.
It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was-let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 20 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...