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1) Night
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Luncia Gamzer was a cheerful eight-year-old girl growing up in 1930's Poland. But then the Nazis arrived-and Lucia's world was shattered forever. The book features this story as well as the stories of eight other Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. Their true life accounts are a powerful testament to courage in the face of hatred. Their legacy of survival will move you, captivate...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Language
English
Description
Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a...
Author
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
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six...
13) Alicia: my story
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the flight of Hedy Engle and her family as they left Hungary in 1941 and made a perilous journey across Europe to escape the Nazis and finally enter the United States from Bermuda.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been killed, exiled, or forced into ghettos, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. Chiger, the last surviving member of this group, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing, and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers....