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Nicholas Winton's lottery of life Nicholas Winton's lottery of life Matej Mináč Details and pictures of the so called “Czech Kindertransport” which saved 669 children from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton, the man known as “the British Schindler”. OL11804829W
A Red boyhood A Red boyhood Anatole Konstantin "A childhood memoir of Stalin's Soviet Union that details the daily trials of people trapped in this regime. Left fatherless by Stalin's purges, then forced to flee the Germans and live as an impover… OL11927093W
I REMEMBER SINGING I REMEMBER SINGING Arielle A. Aaron **I Remember Singing** New Biography Offers Detailed, Heartwarming Account of Courageous Holocaust Survivor "The Holocaust happened. I was there." These are the words of Hugo Schiller, Holocaust s… OL11970147W
Ruts, yeled, ruts 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
Children during the Holocaust Children during the Holocaust Patricia Heberer **Hard-hitting nonfiction and biographical study of the experiences of Jewish children from all walks of life. A deeply moving and insightful look into their experiences, struggles, displacement and … OL16212033W
To Hope and Back - The Journey of the St. Louis To Hope and Back - The Journey of the St. Louis Kathy Kacer The tragic true story of the ship St. Louis. It left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba, but was denied port in Cuba, the US and Canada before returning to Europe. w… OL16794178W
The boy on the wooden box The boy on the wooden box Leon Leyson Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler. The text contains descriptions of violence. OL16812215W
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England. OL1742390W
Irena's Children Irena's Children Mazzeo, Tilar xiv, 257 pages : 21 cm OL17812660W
E/96 E/96 Paul-Henri Rips The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood: forever. OL17915531W
Salvaged pages 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
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
50 children 50 children Steven Pressman Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 19… OL19975945W
Dziewczynka w czerwonym płaszczyku Dziewczynka w czerwonym płaszczyku Roma Ligocka 350 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm OL20639304W
Yellow star Yellow star Jennifer Rozines Roy From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. OL21668254W
Pepiczek Pepiczek Yossi Sarid He Didn't Know His Name. OL24713346W
The Holocaust The Holocaust Stewart Ross Bandi Guttmann is a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew, living in Budapest in 1944. German forces have occupied the city and life for Bandi and his family is about to become unbearable. Set apart from the res… OL28772166W
Hiding to Survive Hiding to Survive Maxine B. Rosenberg First person accounts of fourteen Holocaust survivors who as children were hidden from the Nazis by non-Jews. OL3258000W
Damals war es Friedrich Damals war es Friedrich Hans Peter Richter **Friedrich** (initially published in German as **Damals war es Friedrich**) is a novel about two boys and their families as they grow together during Hitler's rise to power and reign in Germany in t… OL5268553W
Anne Frank Anne Frank Mirjam Pressler Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years. OL79104W
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