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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1949
Language
English
Description
This compilation is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings--short stories, fables, personal reminiscences and an unfinished novel--composed during her seclusion from the Nazis during World War II. These writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne's wisdom and youthful imagination. An invaluable companion to Diary of a Young Girl.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
88) Leona
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
A young Jewish woman living in Mexico City struggles bewteen her love for a non-Jewish man and her traditional family's demands.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they were trained, these army recruits knew what would happen to them if they were captured....
Author
Series
Filo y contrafilo volume 43
Publisher
Ediciones Lea
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
Spanish translation of summary: El diario de una niña judía en su adolescencia temprana describe tanto las alegrías y sufrimientos de la vida cotidiana, así como pensamientos típicos adolescentes, a lo largo de dos...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has...
93) Auschwitz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
94) Yes no maybe so
Author
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
95) Remembering: voices of the Holocaust : a new history in the words of the men and women who survived
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
An oral history of the Holocaust constructed from interviews with over one hundred survivors, spanning from the start of persecution in 1933 to the struggle to rebuild lives after liberation, which covers the ghettos, the camps, hiding, resistance, the death marches, and other topics.
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle finds romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014, c2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts the efforts of Jews who organized others and sabotaged the Nazis during the Holocaust, including Georges Loinger who smuggled children from occupied France into Switzerland and four brothers who led refugees into the forest to build a village and an army. .
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1947
Language
English
Description
In order to help him write a series of articles about anti-Semitism, a journalist poses as a Jew to get a good angle for the story. He soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance, and how it affects not only him personally, but the people he loves.
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