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Thorndike Press large print basicHoffman, Alice
Summary: In May 1940, Anne Frank is a young girl not quite eleven with all the ordinary problems of a little sister, but Amsterdam is about to be invaded by Nazis and after that everything changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOFGordon, Cambria
Summary: As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORStillerman, Marci.
Summary: A few brave souls in a Nazi camp are determined to gather nine spoons to make a menorah for Chanukah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachai Pub. 1998
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Summary: "During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC BRAShusterman, Neal
Summary: Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SHUArato, Rona.
Summary: In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARAWeissman, Elissa Brent
Summary: Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEIDonoghue, John
Summary: "A novel of the improbable friendship that arises between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chessplayer in Auschwitz SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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Summary: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HUNStamper, Vesper
Summary: Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction StamperJenoff, Pam
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jenoff 2017Iles, Greg.
Summary: In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILEHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, Yona has amassed a lifetime of survival skills. She knows how to find food in the depths of the harshest winter, how to build a shelter to withstand the elements, and even how to kill a man if she must--but little about the simplest human interactions. Her solitary existence is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HARAdler, Malka
Summary: "Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz. Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIAAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ALBHarmel, Kristin
Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HARSilva, Daniel
Summary: Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SilvaHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARNorman, Howard A.
Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORRosner, Elizabeth.
Summary: Growing up in a house filled with silence and devoid of emotion, siblings Julian, a scientist who lives a life of seclusion, and Paula, a talented opera singer, must confront and overcome the past when dark secrets resurface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSAlbom, Mitch
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023