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Author
Publisher
Service Press
Pub. Date
2001, 2002
Language
English
Description
Benny Hochman was 21 when he was liberated by American troops from Hitler's hellish concentration camps. Only flesh and bones at 78 pounds on his six-foot frame after five years of imprisonment, his indomitable fighting spirit survived the horrors that saw millions of his fellow Polish countrymen perish, including all family members.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.
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 of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately,...
5) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
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.
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...