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101) Good night, Maman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
At the beginning of World War II, Karolina's spirit magically travels from the war-torn Land of the Dolls to the Krakow, Poland, shop of the Dollmaker, Cyryl, and together they take great risks to save their Jewish friends.
103) The Holocaust
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the early persecution of Jews in Germany, the rise to power of the Nazis, the concentration camps, and other historical events surrounding the Holocaust.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In rural Whitwell, Tennessee, all 1,600 residents are alike, "white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant." When the community middle school decided to teach diversity by focusing on the Holocaust, the students did not believe that the Nazis had killed six million Jews and five million others. To help them grasp the numbers, they collected 11 million paper clips, which they placed in a memorial made from a German World War II railcar. The paper clip image...
107) Dawn
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
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Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a...
109) Christopher's ghosts
Author
Series
Paul Christopher novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A tale spanning the period from the late 1930s to the height of the Cold War follows Paul Christopher's struggles against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin through his efforts to escape the machinations of an S.S. officer who would kill Christopher for exposing the man's brutal actions.
110) Who was Anne Frank?
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrated biography of the young Jewish girl who, with her family and others, hid from the Nazis in an annex for two years before being betrayed and sent to a concentration camp.
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Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants, run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast north of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust with profoundly different stories, who come to find salvation in the bonds of friendship. (Bestseller)...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering menace but also in its hero's desperate attempt to discover logic where none exists. A psychological fable as wry and haunting as Badenheim 1939, The Death of...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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...
116) Annexed
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.
Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex, but what about Peter van Pels, the boy who was also trapped there with her? As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne's diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story goes on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps.
117) The Holocaust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Recounts the history of the Holocaust discussing its causes, events, participants, consequences, whether it could have been prevented, and what it means today.
118) The final solution
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Series
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Discusses the origins, development, and implementation of the Final Solution, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.
119) Anne Frank
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who became famous after her death in the Holocaust, when her diary was published.
120) Holocaust
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Pub. Date
c1978
Description
The epic novel of two families and the genocide in Nazi Germany, by the writer of the blockbuster TV miniseries. The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, with whom their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions realized with the SS at the side of the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich. The Weisses are Jewish, also "good" Germans-but under the new regime, they are doomed. Told through the reminiscences of Erik Dorf, the ambitious...