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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amid the horrors of World War II, Irena Sendler was an unlikely and unsung hero. While many people lived in fear of the Nazis, Irena defied them, even though it could have meant her life. She kept records of the children she helped smuggle away from the Nazis' grasp, and when she feared her work might be discovered, she buried her lists in jars, hoping to someday recover them and reunite children with their parents. This gripping true story of a woman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Even in the darkest of times - especially in the darkest of times - there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindlers list. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends--but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
10) Resistance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with...
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children. Her secret list of the children's real identities was kept safe, buried in two jars under a tree in war-torn Warsaw. An inspiring story of courage and compassion, this biography includes a list of resources, source notes, and an index.
Author
Series
Letras de bolsillo) volume 80
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Bruno tiene nueve años y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un niño judío que vive una extraña existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place...
15) The cage
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1988, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
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