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Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles. Based on her diary.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
"Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers....
5) Defiance
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Based on the true story of a community of refugees and fighters, presents an account of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Describes the formation of one of the most daring underground movements of World War II under the leadership of twenty-four-year-old Isaac Zuckerman, and the group's collective efforts to gather information, build an arms cache, participate in uprisings, and organize escape systems.
13) Yellow star
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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?
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"In 1942 German Nazis and Polish collaborators drove nine-year-old Naomi Rosenberg and her family from the town of Goray, Poland, and into hiding. For nearly two years they were forced to take refuge in a crawl space beneath a barn. In this tense and moving memoir, the author tells of her terror and confusion as a child literally buried alive.
Her family owed their survival to the reluctant and constantly wavering support of the barn owners, gentiles...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
On April 19, 1943, thousands of Nazi troops were given the order to remove all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a few square blocks sheltering the remnants of the half million or more Jewish citizens of Poland's capital, to the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. They were to kill those who resisted. A few hundred of the trapped Jews, mostly teenagers, armed only with pistols, Molotov cocktails, and a few light machine guns, vowed to fight back. Resistance...
19) Auschwitz
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.