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2) Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. The second volume follows the family's move from Auschwitz to the Catskills.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother's lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March...
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Rachel survived the Nazi desolation at great personal cost. Returning to Jerusalem, she discovers members of her long-lost family. When her past is discovered, she is discredited before the people she wants to help.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1965 Manhattan, chef and Auschwitz survivor Peter Rashkin is resigned to solitude and devotes himself to running his restaurant until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him and his new family.
9) Exodus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury - the story of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.
Author
Series
Promised wars volume 1
Publisher
Wicked Son
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac's Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel's founding--bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Bestselling author David L. Robbins, called "the Homer of World War II," turns his mastery of the historical novel to another defining moment of the twentieth century: the birth of...
14) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the tragic aftermath of the Holocaust, in which over six million Jewish men, women, and children in Europe had been exterminated by Hitler, the Nazis, and their collaborators.
16) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies....
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1994, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer in New York. Now he'll work for anyone -- as long as the money's right. So when the UN calls him in to do their dirty work, he accepts without hesitation. A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man : Tom must placate the family and limit their claims for compensation. In London, Tom meets the dead man's alluring daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances. Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they have three grown daughters and a comfortable home. Yet what binds them together isn't only affection and solidarity but also the painful facts of their respective histories, which they keep hidden even from their own...