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Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1938 Berlin, Germany, a cat sees Rosenstrasse change from a peaceful neighborhood of Jews and Gentiles to an unfriendly place where, one November night, men in brown shirts destroy Jewish-owned businesses and arrest or kill Jewish people. Includes facts about Kristallnacht and a list of related books and web resources.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of a young boy on the inside of Auschwitz, whose life is changed by the actions of a prisoner who performs magic for the guards..."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1941, Irene Lorch must perform the most perilous balancing act of her life. Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazis has put them all in grave danger."--
Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her familys...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anna's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1320L
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a school trip to Israel, Johanna discover's that her German grandfather acquired a clothing store during the Nazi regime according to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich rather than starting it himself as her family has always stated. She struggles with whether to keep silent or to question her family's history.