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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Schindler's ark	Thomas Keneally	"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n…	OL10619574W
A family secret	Eric Heuvel	While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her fa…	OL13778485W
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour	Elie Wiesel	Contains: [La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit) L'Aube Le Jour	OL14856828W
Escape to the forest	Ruth Y. Radin	A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Biels…	OL14870283W
Ish min ha-tsad ha-aḥer	Uri Orlev	Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.	OL1580106W
Ruts, yeled, ruts	Uri Orlev	Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.	OL1580109W
The prosperous thief	Andrea Goldsmith	A rich and epic novel of two families spanning the turbulence of the twentieth century over three continents. Alice Lewin, the sole survivor of her family from World War II in Germany, makes a journe…	OL15839273W
Escape to Liechtenstein	Ed Dunlop	Hans and Gretchen discover a young Jewish boy hiding from Nazi troops and decide to assist him in his escape from Austria.	OL1637382W
Berlin Boxing Club	Robert Sharenow	Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin, don't care that Karl has never been in a synagogue or that his family doesn't practice religion. De…	OL16482212W
Under the Egg	Laura Marx Fitzgerald	When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who…	OL17332151W
A death in Vienna	Daniel Silva	Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personal n…	OL1814727W
Good night, Maman	Norma Fox Mazer	After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.	OL1841631W
Eli remembers	Ruth Vander Zee,Marian Sneider	Year after year, Eli watches the solemn lighting of seven candles at his family's celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. On such a happy occasion, his parents and grandparents always seem…	OL18716096W
Far to go	Alison Pick	"When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fier…	OL19946949W
The war within these walls	Aline Sax	Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis. Misha and his fami…	OL19973319W
A man lies dreaming	Lavie Tidhar	"Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and N…	OL20021323W
The one man	Andrew Gross	"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Na…	OL20030826W
The never-ending greenness	Neil Waldman	When his family comes to live in Israel after the end of World War II, a young boy begins planting and caring for trees, a practice that spreads across the whole country.	OL2040011W
Once	Morris Gleitzman,CORA TIEDRA GARCÍA	Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World …	OL2402308W
The Museum Guard	Howard A. Norman	This is an amazing and beautifully written novel about two museum guards, one an eccentric uncle, the other his orphaned nephew, DeFoe. By day they spend their time curating an art collection, breaki…	OL30200W