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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people. Includes historical notes, recipe, glossary, and a link to a bibliography.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Sensitively edited, the abridged edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. There are line drawings, lots of family photographs, and an afterword to explain why the diary ends so abruptly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Wicked Son
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin to save them. The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Discusses Kristallnacht, a four-day pogrom instigated by the Nazis against Germany's Jews, including stories from the victims, witnesses and perpetrators of the attack, and how it marked the beginning of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
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.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy's mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posiealbum (autograph book) serve as stepping stones in a crucial year in history, when people of Jewish ancestry in Germany and Austria were systematically stripped of their rights, subjected to violence, and arrested without cause. Jutta was one of the lucky ones who escaped to America before the rising tide of violence...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew University offers listeners this thoroughly researched testament to the scale and extent of the Holocaust. Wistrich dissects world political and social climates in order to provide reasons why such an atrocity could occur. By tracing the history of anti-semitism in Europe over two millennia, Wistrich illustrates how pervasive the attitude was around the world.
Author
Series
The Norton library volume N255
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Documents, personal narratives, and prints illuminate the course, events, and results of the Spanish Inquisition