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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The origins of this story go back to Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp, where Isle Koch, the sadistic wife of the commandant, developed a liking for things (gloves, lampshades) made out of human skin. Flash forward to the present: the author receives a strange artifact in the mail from a friend: a lampshade that appears to be made from human skin. This fascinating and frequently unsettling book chronicles Jacobson's quest to find a proper home...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
11) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who became famous after her death in the Holocaust, when her diary was published.
12) Munich Signature
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Although they are able to escape Hitler's Germany, Leah and Louis are unable to find a country which will take them in.