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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
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English
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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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English
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"'Bloom where you're planted,' is the advice Christine Bölz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations....
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Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Elie Wiesel chronicles the events of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to the liberation, presenting photos from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and including commentary by a child of a survivor on the importance of bearing witness into the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Description
In this narrative history of the Einsatzgruppen--killer task forces deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II by Himmler's SS--Richard Rhodes argues that Hitler made two separate decisions to murder the Jews of Europe. The first, in July 1941, condemned the eastern European Jews to slaughter by the Einsatzgruppen, who would execute 1.5 million victims between 1941 and 1943 by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar--crimes...
10) The Holocaust
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Publisher
[EDC]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the events leading up to the Holocaust and describes the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, the deportation of the Jews and non-Jews to concentration camps, and the Nazis' Final Solution even when the war effort was collapsing.
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Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Using primary source material along with historical narrative, explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1939 and December 1941.
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Series
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nazi Germany's Holocaust has become something of a benchmark for all other genocides. This instructive volume offers readers insight into the background of its mastermind, Adolf Hitler, and sets the stage for the appalling fates of so many minorities, including Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other allegedly "inferior" groups of people in Germany, who were tortured, held captive, and slaughtered. Readers will also learn about their lives...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally...
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," the horrific event in November 1938, when members of the Nazi Party and their supporters destroyed close to 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and synagogues in Germany and Austria. Includes source notes and timeline.
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