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Language
English
Description
Hanna Wechsler's journey began in a small town in Poland and took her to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Auschwitz, Germany, Israel and, eventually, the United States. Her story and that of her family is one of courage and determination. Emerging from the darkest period in recent history, they resolved to create life anew. In her book, "In Spite of it All," Hanna tells the story of their rebirth, hoping that all readers, young and old alike, will see that...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author, a survivor of the Holocaust, illustrates her experiences through fabric panels that capture her and her sister's childhood as they, disguised as Catholic farmhands, are separated from their family and escape Nazi rule.
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In a time when people were ruthlessly persecuted and killed, some were able to make it through alive. Whether it was thanks to lucky twists of fate or the loving sacrifices of others, they lived to tell their stories, which serve as reminders to never allow such a tragedy to happen again. These are the unbelievable true stories of six children, in their own words, of how they survived one of the darkest times in human history"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A memoir from a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor tells the story of how she took on an assumed identity fighting Nazi occupation in the Netherlands before being sent to a women's prison camp.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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...
12) All but my life
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A Polish Jew records her experiences and struggle for survival in Nazi work camps and during a thousand-mile forced march
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even the camps at large-so called Blockalteste and Lageralteste...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, where Thomas was separated from his family. Alone, ten-year-old Thomas managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survuvwe Auschwitz and the infamous death march. Filled with the stirring and true insights of a child, this acclaimed memoir conveys the...
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