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Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann-Raintree
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the Jews were persecuted by Hitler in Nazi Germany, and profiles over a dozen individuals who risked their lives to help Jews escape. Features photographs, fact boxes, maps, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Covering the 1938 St. Martin festival when she learns that Jewish-Polish citizens are being deported from Germany, journalist Hannah rushes to get the story only to be kidnapped by the SS and rescued by her presumed-dead lover Lars.
63) The pact
Author
Series
The blood sisters volume 1
Publisher
Roberta Kagan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When three little girls--Anna, Bernie, and Elica--make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Austria 1929: Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before...
Author
Series
Blood sisters volume 3
Publisher
Roberta Kagan
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a world filled with danger, heartbreak, and impossible choices, the blood sisters must navigate through the darkness to find love, redemption, and a chance at survival. Anna has found solace and love in the colorful Romany camp. How long will this last under the watchful eye of a spurned and obsessed Nazi? In the unrelenting grimness of Ravensbruck, Moriah is caught in the web of Dagna's deadly ambition and schemes. Her chances for survival diminish...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery....
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to touch the hearts and minds of children around the world....
70) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the kindertransport : a memoir of music, love, and survival
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable memoir, world-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the inspiring story of her mother's journey through World War II ... and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter: the gift of music.
72) Kindertransport
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1940. German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris, forcing frightened citizens to flee. But not everyone has the luxury to leave. Camille Lacroix, a chambermaid at the world-famous Hôtel Ritz, must stay to support her family back home in Brittany. Desperate to earn money, Camille also acts as a lady's maid for longtime guest Vivian Miller, a glamorous American widow--and a Nazi sympathizer. Despite her distrust of the woman, Camille...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. Growing up in post-war rural Wales where the conflict was never spoken of, Jonathan and his siblings were at a loss to understand their father's relentless drive...
Series
American experience volume AHOL601
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubling picture of the U.S. during a time beset by anti-Semitism and a government that, due to complex social and political factors, delayed action and suppressed information and blocked efforts that could have saved hundreds of thousands of people from the Holocaust. Focuses on the case of Kurt Klein, who attempted to battle the bureaucratic stonewall as he tried to get his Jewish family out of Germany.
78) Isabel's war
Author
Publisher
Lizzie Skurnick Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel has no interest in the war in Europe until her family welcomes Helga, a German war refugee, into their home in the Bronx.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
277 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival...