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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Clara's war	Clara Kramer	A young girl's true story of miraculous survival under the NazisOn 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the sa…	OL11979602W
Defy the darkness	David Kohn,Joe Rosenblum,Joe Rosenblum	This is the story of a young man caught in the whirlwind of the Holocaust, who survives a chain of events so harrowing they almost defy belief. As a boy, Joe Rosenblum watches as the Nazi overlords t…	OL12379566W
Salvaged pages	Alexandra Zapruder	"This stirring collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences - some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing a…	OL18240240W
Approaching an Auschwitz survivor	Jürgen Matthäus	"Five Holocaust scholars reflect on the testimony of one survivor, Helen "Zippi" Tichauer and watch her testimony--and scholarly responses to it--evolve over the years"--Provided by publisher.	OL18356614W
Underground in Berlin	Marie Simon	"Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin …	OL20007974W
Single handed	Daniel M. Cohen	BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor Teddy Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to r…	OL20037770W
13 Stradomska Street	Andrew Potok	"Potok is blind but he makes us see not only the pre-World War Two landscape from which he and his family fled, but also how and why and at what price."--Jay Neugeboren, author of "Max Baer and the S…	OL20049713W
Triumph of Hope	Margot Bettauer Dembo,Ruth Elias	Ruth Elias was a Jewish woman who was born Ruth Huppert in Moravian Ostrava on 6 October 1922. After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia, she was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then Auschw…	OL20139287W
An unbroken chain	Henry A. Oertelt,Stephanie Oertelt Samuels	In this amazing true-life account of the Holocaust, Henry Oertelt retraces the sequence of events that forever changed his destiny. Each event is broken down into eighteen separate incidents, all int…	OL20582387W
Behind enemy lines	Wendy Holden,Marthe Cohn	Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by thei…	OL20949034W
Silent Refuge	Margrit Rosenberg Stenge	xxvii, 232 pages : 23 cm	OL21829384W
weiter leben	Ruth Klüger	Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-o…	OL2442353W
Man's Search for Meaning [adaptation]	Viktor E. Frankl	xvii, 159 pages : 23 cm	OL24557376W
A Jump for Life	Ruth Altbeker Cyprys	The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping f…	OL2675321W
After long silence	Helen Fremont	Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not e…	OL29196W
In the Beginning Was the Ghetto	Oskar Rosenfeld	"From February 1942 to July 1944, Oskar Rosenfeld served in the statistics department of the Lodz ghetto. A Jewish playwright and journalist, he kept his own records - meticulous and harrowing notes …	OL3145104W
Upon the Head of the Goat	Aranka Siegal	Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying …	OL3958411W
The Diary of Anne Frank	Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett,Anne Frank	Based on the book ANNE FRANK: DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, the diary of the young Jewish girl in hiding from the Nazis is presented in the form of a play. The coauthor is Albert Hackett.	OL5259772W
Hanna and Walter	Hanna Kohner	"Hanna Bloch and Walter Kohner met in a small Czech town in 1935. She was fifteen, a romantic who planned to move to the big city. He was twenty and dreamed of being an actor. They ice skated; they d…	OL5473107W
City of Life, City of Death	Max Michelson	"City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-…	OL78642W