This biography tells the story of Irene Gut Opdyke. When she was a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland, Opdyke risked her life by sheltering 12 Jews in the basement of her employer's home--he was a German officer. She moved to the US after World War II.
Reflections of Hannah Goslar, a Holocaust survivor who was a childhood friend of Anne Frank. This memoir covers the girls' close friendship before Anne and her family went into hiding, and their last tearful reunion at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where Anne died at the age of 15. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
Eminent scholar Yehuda Bauer traces the Holocaust to its deepest roots by examining the history of the Jews' interaction with other cultures throughout history, a detailed portrait of the Jewish presence in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century, and an exhaustive depiction of the events before and during World War II.
After their French town is invaded by Nazis, Monique is horrified to discover that her Jewish neighbors are being sent to concentration camps. Then, Monique awakens one night and sees what she thinks is a ghost sitting on the edge of her bed; but it isn't a ghost--it's a Jewish girl about the same age as Monique. It is then that Monique discovers ...
Living in Poland, 12-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he's Jewish. But when Hitler comes to power, Jack is torn from his family as they are herded to a concentration camp, and he is forced to work for the Nazis. Each day is a struggle to survive, and life in the camps is brutal as Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a prisoner's ...
Told in alternating chapters this is the true story of two children swept up in the horrible events of World War II. Helen is a Jewish girl who spends two years hiding in the Netherlands before being captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. Alfons is a boy who lives just a few miles away from where Helen was born. He joins the Hitler Youth ...
Based on the author's experiences, this book describes the life of Annie de Leeuw during World War II, when she and one of her three sisters hid from the Nazis in the attic of a gentile peasant family for more than two years.
Diary entries from five teenagers who eventually met the same fate as victims of the Holocaust. David Rubinowicz, the son of a Polish diaryman, Yitzhak Rudashevski, a communist living in Lithuania, Moshe Flinker an Orthodox Jew living in Belgium, Eva Heyman, a wealthy girl living in Hungary, and Anne Frank living, in hiding with her family in ...
This overview of the Holocaust explores such topics as the roots of anti-Semitism in Germany, Hitler's rise to power, the horrors of the death camps, and the Nuremberg trails. A final chapter refutes the claims of Holocaust deniers.
Interviews with 15 Jewish Holocaust survivors who, as children during World War II, had to go into hiding to avoid being captured by the Nazis. These children survived by living with non-Jewish families, hiding in religious institutions, or constantly moving from place to place on their own. Some of the survivors were treated well by their hosts ...
This nonfiction book tells the story of several Danes who defied the Nazis during their occupation of Denmark. Includes source notes, biographical sketches of the people interviewed for the book, a chronology, and an explanation of how the author researched the book.
A book of biographies giving accounts of the experiences of eight children from different parts of occupied Europe during World War II, who were either forced to hide, to flee, to assume a new identity or were taken prisoner in a concentration camp.
Anita (Kempler) Lobel, the illustrator of such books as "On Market Street" and the author-illustrator of "Away from Home", tells the story of her childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hidden by a Catholic family, the Jewish Lobel (then Kempler) and her brother were eventually discovered by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. After the war, ...
A photo-history of the Holocaust. Sidebars throughout the text focus on the experiences of 20 individuals who, as children, were victims of the Nazis. Illustrated with b&w and color images from the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Because there were people who believed "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a hoax, renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal sets out to find incontrovertible proof that the diary is authentic. Full color.
The Polish-Jewish author shares the true story of her experiences in Poland during World War II. Separated from her father and brother, the then 8-year-old Toll and her mother were taken in and hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile family. Illustrated with watercolor paintings done by the author during the time she was in hiding.
Beginning with Otto Franks idyllic childhood, this remarkable portrait of the Frank family and the Holocaust follows the familys journey from its proud German roots through life under Nazi occupation to their horrifying concentration camp experiences. Illustrations.
Mendel Grossman, one of the many Jews imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II, was driven by a passion to bear witness to the human suffering that was going on around him. He secretly photographed people and events in the ghetto, leaving a historical record. In this photographic information book, the reader is taken on a journey with ...
The searing, beautiful illustrations of acclaimed artist Roberto Innocenti capture the fear, love, and sadness of a Holocaust survivor's tale in this story of a Jewish couple who make a heart-rending decision so that their infant daughter might live. Based on a true story.
In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931." The center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis.
In March of 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo. On the outside, in white paint were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind - German for Orphan. The children were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? This is the search for the identity of the the mysterious suitcase.
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