Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Passport to freedom Passport to freedom Anthony Leonard Laye Synopsis Bracha, a 19-year-old Czech farm girl, throws off the shackles of her austere orthodox Jewish life, and runs away to Antwerp in 1936. Four years later, after a failed love affair, she… OL11964722W
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
The holocaust The holocaust Donald L. Niewyk This volume brings together some ... important and stimulating contributions to our understanding of Nazi genocide. These readings have been selected for the purpose of acquainting students with a va… OL15443150W
The Last Brother The Last Brother Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand,Nathacha Appanah Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan OL15667661W
The incredible rescues The incredible rescues Ed Dunlop Fourteen-year-old Hans and his younger sister Gretchen trust in the Lord as they help Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg save Jews from the Nazis in Budapest, Hungary, during the closing days of World… OL1637384W
A good place to hide A good place to hide Peter Grose This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody dema… OL17090766W
Rescuing the children Rescuing the children Deborah Hodge Discusses the efforts of the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries before the start of World War II. OL18143559W
Number the Stars Number the Stars Lois Lowry Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the… OL1846074W
Eris al rescate Eris al rescate Marilyn Easton Cragger, el rey de los cocodrilos, tiene un plan secreto; engaña a Laval para que este se quede con el CHI de los cocodrilos, ¡lo que enoja como nunca antes a la tribu de cocodrilos! Eris tendrá que… OL20004704W
Defiance Defiance Nechama Tec The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. … OL2066467W
The resistance The resistance Deborah Bachrach Discusses the efforts of Jews and non-Jews in various countries to stop the deadly persecution of Germany's Jewish population by the Nazis. OL2692833W
A dimanche prochain A dimanche prochain Jacqueline Mendels Birn This is the story of Jacqueline Mendels Birn's and her family's survival as Jewis in Vichy France during World War II. OL27680325W
In defiance of Hitler In defiance of Hitler Carla Killough McClafferty At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in… OL2917935W
In my pocket In my pocket Dorrith M. Sim A seven-year-old Jewish girl from Germany suffers fear and uncertainty in July 1939 while traveling by train and boat to the safety of a new life in Scotland. OL2986985W
Jagendorf's foundry Jagendorf's foundry Siegfried Jagendorf "Let us take advantage of this historic moment and cleanse the soil of Romania..." These words began the Romanian Holocaust in 1941. Deported Jews were expected to perish. So it might have been for t… OL4484273W
Holocaust rescuers Holocaust rescuers Darryl Lyman Discusses the efforts of ten individuals who did what they could to save Jews from the Nazis, including Anna Borkowska, Varian Fry, Irene Gut Opdyke, Mustafa Hardaga, Jorgen Kieler, Oskar Schindler, … OL450736W
The Holocaust heroes The Holocaust heroes David K. Fremon Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution. OL476059W
The secret ship The secret ship Ruth Aliav The author relates the tremendous obstacles involved in the rescue of European Jews who were being secretly and illegally transported to Palestine on the ship "Hilda" to escape destruction by the Naz… OL6900810W
The mapmaker The mapmaker Frank G. Slaughter ***I am by no means the first to be convinced that no sharp line can be drawn separating fiction from history. The Mapmaker is a novel, ant yet real history is an integral part of every page.*** Andr… OL99251W