From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Auteur:Wees, JanetSommaire:Walter is a young child when his parents decide to leave their home in Germany and start a new life in the Netherlands. As Jews, they know they are not safe under the Nazi regime. Walter is at first too young to appreciate the danger...
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Auteur:Kerr, JudithSommaire:In 1933, nine-year-old Anna is too young to worry about Adolf Hitler and about being Jewish in pre-war Berlin. Suddenly, however, everything changes..
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Auteur:Jockel, HelenaSommaire:When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel could only think about how to save "her" children. She accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz only to see them taken to the gas chamber. Her...
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Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about this time in history. Some students wrote...
- Auteur:Engel, DavidSommaire:
In this course, Professor David Engel of New York University examines the encounter between Germany's Third Reich and the Jews of the twenty European countries that fell under Nazi domination between 1933 and 1945.
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Auteur:Levin, AlexSommaire:Under the Yellow & Red Stars is a remarkable story of survival, coming of age and homecoming after years as a stranger in a strange land. Alex Levin was only ten years old when he ran deep into the forest after the Germans invaded...
- Auteur:Schaffer, Paul, Veil, SimoneSommaire:
The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil. The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a...
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Auteur:Jenoff, PamSommaire:An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attorneys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to...
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Auteur:Morris, HeatherSommaire:This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov'an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom. It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but...
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Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:For ages 8+. The heroine, Gabi, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. She describes her community before the Nazi occupation and the events that unfolded afterwards...
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Auteur:Lipszyc, CarolSommaire:This collection presents an arc of historical experience of Jewish child and teen life during the Shoah. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the young and hunted in these stories hide in forests; survive in ghettoes and camps; and assume...
- Auteur:Birnbaum, NechamaSommaire:
At the concentration camp, Rosie's head is shaved and, with loss of her beautiful hair, she loses a cherished future. Yet she is determined to get home, through death camps and death marches.
- Auteur:GOLDSMITH, AndreaSommaire:
Alice Lewin survived the war as a young child. After decades of burying her past she decides to visit the Kindertransport archive, where she learns of the existence of a possible relative, Henry Lewin. She travels to Australia to hear...
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Auteur:Wolfe, Margie, Bat-Zvi, PninaSommaire:A true story about two brave sisters whose promise to "always, stay together" helped them survive Auschwitz. The night that Rachel and Toby's parents are taken away by the Nazis, they give their young daughters three gold coins with the...
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Auteur:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSommaire:The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived...
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Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:Based on real events and real characters! It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to unknown fates. But she, her mother and...
- Auteur:BEER, Edith HahnSommaire:
Compelling and riveting story, of both disillusionment and faith that provides keen psychological insights into the Nazi propaganda machine.
- Auteur:Albom, MitchSommaire:
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince...
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