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Author
Publisher
Harper
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
National Book Award-winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed artist Andres Vera Martinez present a multidimensional exploration of the Holocaust, delivered through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope.
Prepare yourself for an unforgettable journey into impossible and wondrous things that never happened, set against a backdrop of impossible, unthinkable things that did. Brilliant storytelling plunges readers into one of the darkest...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save"--
6) Artifice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.