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Summary: Describes the experiences of those Jewish children who were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust and survived to tell about it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 GRESummary: The tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IntMilton, Edith.
Contents: Getting there -- Eggs -- The second year of the war -- Leeds -- Down in the forest -- Mutti and Pappi -- The tiger in the attic -- Jesus and me -- Dried eggs and puberty -- War and peace -- Saint Bride's -- Leaving -- Ocean crossing -- Chamber music -- Understanding Mother -- Weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MILTON, EDITH MILFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE MULMuller, Melissa
Summary: Presenting revelations, this book returns Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalised and so all the more affecting. It offers an understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MULWilkomirski, Binjamin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 WILHartman, Renée G.
Summary: "Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HARFeuchtwanger, E. J.
Summary: "An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEUCHTWANGER, E.J. FEUKrimstein, Ken
Summary: When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KRILevi, Lia
Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEVI LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People LeviYoussef, Jagger
Summary: "While Anne Frank hid from the Nazis in secret rooms in the Netherlands during World War II, she confided in her diary about her life, providing the world with a primary source of what it was like to grow up fearing the wrath of Nazi Germany for simply being Jewish. This biography uses Anne Frank's most affecting writings to highlight the events of her short life. While the sidebars and fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAMetselaar, Menno.
Summary: Photos of the famous diary, school pictures, and the rooms in which she lived with her family while hiding from the Nazis for two years are compiled in this moving biography about the short life and enduring spirit of this young girl and talented writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Pr. 2009
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Summary: Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 BERMiller, Irene
Summary: Irene Miller relates the story of her family's survival during the Holocaust. The family was stranded in a frozen field outside of Warsaw, Poland when the man hired to help them escape instead cheated and robbed them. The family struggled to survive as they become separated, reunited, and ultimately sent to a Siberian work camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan--Dearborn 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MILWoodward, Kay
Summary: "A compelling factual account and timeline of those two years. Fascinating photographs show the still unchanged Annex, including the hidden entrance, and text takes readers directly inside to reveal the surroundings and Anne's story."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2020
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Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.53 LEYAyer, Eleanor H.
Summary: Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 AYEKlüger, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KLULauer, Betty
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LAUWarren, Andrea.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 WARSummary: "In a time when people were ruthlessly persecuted and killed, some were able to make it through alive. Whether it was thanks to lucky twists of fate or the loving sacrifices of others, they lived to tell their stories, which serve as reminders to never allow such a tragedy to happen again. These are the unbelievable true stories of six children, in their own words, of how they survived one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC SHAJacobson, Sidney.
Summary: "Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Their account is complete, covering the lives of Anne's parents, Edith and Otto; Anne's first years in Frankfurt; the rise of Nazism;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2010