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41) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occupying Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests to undertake the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of Polish Jews fleeing from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery, must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the journal of a Jewish girl in her earl teens describing 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 the Netherlands. Presented in English and Korean.
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Arie Tamir
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
This book describes a human drama that involves decision-making in impossibly cruel circumstances, a lot of resourcefulness and the struggle to survive. The drama takes place during the Holocaust from the point of view of a child nicknamed Leosh. At age 7, the boy is swept into the whirlwind of the Holocaust. For six years, he endures all the horrors that the holocaust brings upon the Jewish people. Due to a lot of luck, resourcefulness, and with...
46) The Nazi hunters
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thameside Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family when the Nazis took over the Netherlands in 1940, and remained there two years before the hiding place was discovered and its occupants sent to a concentration camp.
48) The rabbit girls
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk's secret history begins to unravel.Searching for more clues of her father's past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women's camp concealed among her mother's things. Within its seams are dozens of letters...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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...
51) Sarah's key
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husbands has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
54) The Winter Guest
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village. Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper. Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her choices...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?