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This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"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" 5698/--
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel are like a fairy tale torn apart, as they lose everything but each other and must endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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English
Description
"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 348 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1945, in a now-famous piece of archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Survivors Club tells the story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael's life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working...
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Publisher
Owlkids
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
17) A bag of marbles
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Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
126 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and...
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