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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses Kristallnacht, a four-day pogrom instigated by the Nazis against Germany's Jews, including stories from the victims, witnesses and perpetrators of the attack, and how it marked the beginning of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
GN 800L
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington D.C. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret "too loathsome to mention"...
24) Alicia: my story
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xi, 356 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary-a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand-and follow.
Her name is Alicia. She was thirteen when she began saving the lives of people she did not know-while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland.
Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
29) Auschwitz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
National Film Network
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Documents the events that took place in Rhina, a small Prussian village, in 1939 when the Jewish population was beaten, their synagogue burned, and their property destroyed before they were expelled from the village. Interviews with German Christians living in the village at the time explore the question of responsibility for these acts, while interviews with surviving Jews describe the harmonious life in the village prior to the 1930s and the deteriorating...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. Compiling new archival material and...
36) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
Publisher
NYMusic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the family from their home into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape as a family. But when circumstances forced the family to separate from older brother Ben, their will to survive was put to the test. This is the incredible true story of one family as they desperately...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust. Rachel's Oma (her grandmother) has two picture albums. In one the photographs show only happy times -- from after World War II, when she and her daughters had come to America. But the other album includes much sadder times from before -- when their life in Germany was destroyed by the...
40) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
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