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2) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
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Raul Hilberg is the most widely respected historian of the Holocaust. (His monumental three-volume The Destruction of the European Jews is recognized as the definitive work on the subject.) In this new book, the fruit of a lifetime's research and reflection, he carries the reader along with the narrative flow of the best fiction. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders is truth, but like a novel, it focuses on people - people in all three categories of the...
12) Then
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Through inmates' own voices--from secret diary entries and artwork to excerpts from memoirs and recordings narrated after the war--"Terezin" explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"This biography examines the life of Anne Frank using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Frank's family background, education, and harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. " --
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
It remains one of the most haunting and emotionally devastating photographic images to emerge from World War II. A child, seemingly terrified, raises his hands as SS soldiers raise their weapons while carrying out the "liquidation" of the Warsaw Ghetto. But who was the boy, who was the young girl next to him, and who was the Nazi soldier?