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Hiding from the Nazis Hiding from the Nazis David A. Adler The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis. OL121554W
Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger **From Goodreads:** The hilarious and heart–warming story about a down–and–out kid who finds inspiration in his favourite baseball hero. In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelv… OL15144540W
A faraway island A faraway island Annika Thor In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at t… OL15895185W
The Upper Zoo The Upper Zoo Michael Robert Wolf After being placed in the "Upper Zoo" class for under-achievers, Jonathan, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in the 1960s, finds his life impacted by an autistic child with a firm commitment to Jesus. OL16697199W
Simchat Torah Simchat Torah Judith Z. Abrams Presents a family service for Simchat Torah, the holiday marking the end of the reading of the Torah and beginning it again. Some prayers are in both Hebrew and English. OL1873521W
Clutch Clutch Heather Camlot 240 pages : 19 cm OL19645805W
Hidden like Anne Frank Hidden like Anne Frank Marcel Prins "Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a f… OL19975498W
Single handed 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
A Chanukah story for night number three A Chanukah story for night number three Dina Herman Rosenfeld A story, told in verse, of a boy's wonderful adventures on his birthday -- the third day of Hanukkah. OL23225982W
Once 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
Bentzi to the rescue Bentzi to the rescue Shifrah Gliḳ Bentzi and friends put on a play to make money and save their local volunteer library from closing. OL27676117W
Mastermind Meyer, Private Eye Mastermind Meyer, Private Eye Simmy Horwitz "Working for the FBI would be a little stifling for me. I'd have to do years of training to meet their qualifications, and I'd have to work in an office with tons of people. Sometimes you have to tak… OL27696208W
A tree still stands A tree still stands Yale Strom A collection of interviews in which young people from Eastern Europe describe what life is like as descendants of Holocaust survivors. OL2973332W
Children of Pithiviers Children of Pithiviers Sheila Kohler "In the summer of 1942 more than two thousand Jewish children were torn from their parents and kept behind barbed wire in a concentration camp in Pithiviers, a small town in the Loiret. Without adult… OL35092W
The hidden children The hidden children Jane Marks Jewish children who were in hiding during the holocaust OL4279704W
Shrinking Circle Shrinking Circle Marion Freyer Wolff A memoir of the author's girlhood in Nazi Berlin during Hitler's rise to power. OL4775069W
The Children We Remember The Children We Remember Chana Byers Abells Text and photographs briefly describe the fate of Jewish children after the Nazis began to control their lives. OL5107209W
Thank you, God! Thank you, God! Judyth Saypol Groner Presents common Jewish prayers and blessings in English and Hebrew with simple transliterations. OL554279W
1111 days in my life plus four 1111 days in my life plus four Ephraim Sten xix, 151 pages : 22 cm OL5821468W
Sac de billes Sac de billes Joseph Joffo 292 p. ; 24 cm OL886243W
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