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Author
Series
Holocaust volume 5
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power. This books also tells the stories of the young people who resisted the Nazi movement.
6) Hiding Edith
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The true story of Edith Schwalb, a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust by posing as a Christian in France.
Author
Series
Alice Hoffman novel volume 28
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
Berlin. Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Ettie, the daughter of a renowned rabbi, offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The author relates her experiences during World War II, when she was forced into hiding because of her Jewish heritage, and her eventual move to America after the war ended.
Author
Series
Melanie Dobson novel volume 12
Language
English
Description
"1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese's dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission. When the enemy finds these women, only one will escape. Seventy-five years...
13) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents information about Anne Frank, including her childhood in Holland, her years in hiding, her death, and her legacy.
14) Paper hearts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story." --Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1942 Hannelore Wolff made a difficult decision, one that changed her life forever. She left the comfort and safety of her boarding school in Berlin, Germany, and volunteered to be sent to a Polish ghetto. The Gestapo had already killed her father and were deporting her mother and brothers. Hannelore could not bear to be separated from what was left of her family so she chose to go with them. It was the beginning of her long journey through what...
18) The Book of Aron
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated...