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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina �Zabi�nski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the �Zabi�nskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano...
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Language
English
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed.
Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto. Her memoir brings to life the vilest and most...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
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Language
English
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Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising.
Spring, 1942. Elzbieta Rabinek has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls...
6) The pianist
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English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
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Series
Zion Covenant volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The compelling sequel to Danzig Passage, and the sixth book in the Zion Covenant Series, carrying on the life-and-death struggle to save Jewish children. Having overrun Czechoslovakia, German tanks now storm across the borders of Poland while Nazi planes bomb Warsaw into flames. Time is running out as the Nazis close in on the port of Danzig, point of escape for Jewish children.
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Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children. Her secret list of the children's real identities was kept safe, buried in two jars under a tree in war-torn Warsaw. An inspiring story of courage and compassion, this biography includes a list of resources, source notes, and an index.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina ¿»abi¿"ska and her husband, Dr. Jan ¿»abi¿"ski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003, c1999
Language
English
Description
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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He will stay in Auschwitz to the bitter end if it means his brother might survive. Poland, 1940. Moshe and his family flee their hometown of Warsaw in a desperate bid for survival as Nazi forces advance on the city. Hiding under false identities, they hope to wait out the end of the war, which must surely be near. But nowhere is truly safe for Poland's Jews, and soon Moshe and his brother find themselves en route to Auschwitz, from where no one returns....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
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