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Saving children from the Holocaust

the Kindertransport
2012
Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust.

A boy in war

2008
Recounts the author's early years in occupied Holland during WWII as friends, neighbors, and items such as food, clothes, and fuel are taken away by the Nazis, covering his ability to find ways to play while helping his father protect guests from the enemy, and his life on the run with his mother after his father is taken.

Hitler's canary

2007
Based upon the true experiences of the author's father, tells the fictional story of ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend, Anton, who participated in the Danish Resistance during World War II.

The Holocaust heroes

1998
Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

A place to hide

1993
The story of some of the brave rescuers who risked their lives to help the Jews during Hitler's take over of Europe.

Anne Frank remembered

the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
1988
An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.

Rescue

the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust
1988
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.

The lily cupboard

1992
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.

The faces of resistance

1994
Explains how many people, acting out of simple human decency, tried to help the Jews of Europe who were persecuted by the German Nazis.

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