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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Revised edition.
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a teen in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his family hide dozens of Jews behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of Nazi-occupied Austria. Nonetheless, in 1943 he was drafted into Hitler's army, soon to be shipped out to fight on the eastern front as a radio operator with the German infantry--in spite of his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a young man thrust into a...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Holocaust child-survivor shares her memories of escaping from Lida Ghetto in Belarus with her parents and joining the Partisans in the Lipiczany Forest as part of the Jewish Resistance"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II. Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes the book accessible, despite its difficult subject. Using...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When the war began, Perre lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister in Amsterdam. Being Jewish in the Netherlands had not presented much of an issue, but by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. While her father was summoned to a work camp, her mother and sister went into hiding but were betrayed and sent to Auschwitz. Perre took on an assumed identity and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta...
Publisher
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
25th anniversary edition REVISED.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When first published a generation ago, Witnesses to the Holocaust gave voice to the survivors and their liberators living in MInnesota and told their stories; it was timely, even urgent. Now the book is an indispensable record of those who rebuilt their lives in the Twin Cities area and its readers must now become witnesses to the witnesses. Their stories must be told generation to generation. Sadly, we live in a world desperately in need of resilience...