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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Having a normal and happy childhood in the 1930s in her community in Poland, a young girl explains how greatly things changed when acts of anti-Semitism began, families got deported, and her very life was put at risk after being forced into hiding with a family of brave gentiles upon the arrival of the Nazis.
12) Mala's cat
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"I was only twelve-and-a-half years old when the shadow of the Third Reich fell across Europe. As the nightmare of the German invasion of my defenseless country began, I was more concerned with my schoolbooks and my family and friends than with the ramifications of war. I could not even begin to imagine the extent of the horrors that were soon to follow"--back cover.
Mala Szorer had a happy childhood in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes...
Author
Publisher
Avalerion Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The only way they would survive, was if they stayed ... TOGETHER. Sala Schonwetter lived the perfect life. Married to the man of her dreams, mother to two beautiful children, and a member of one of the most respected families in town; she had it all. The year was 1939, and the world was about to change. In a heartbreaking instant, she traded her secure life, for one of unspeakable hardship, and danger. Nothing more than hunted prey, she relied on...
Author
Publisher
AP
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World war, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war. Many Jews did not die in...
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