righteous gentiles in the holocaust

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righteous gentiles in the holocaust

Behind the bookcase

Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding place
2020
"Miep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family"--Provided by publisher.

The brushmaker's daughter

2020
"It is 1939 in Berlin, Germany, and twelve-year-old Lillian and her Papa are on the run from Nazi soldiers. Because they are Jewish, they are in danger of being arrested and put in prison. Lillian's father is blind and it seems no one is willing to help them--until they meet Otto Weidt. Mr. Weidt runs a factory that makes brushes for the Nazi army, and his secret is that he employs blind Jewish workers. Lillian soon learns that Otto Weidt is determined to keep her, Papa, and all the Jewish workers safe. But will he be able to?"--Back cover.

The light in hidden places

Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podg?rska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemy?l, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
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Saving children from the Holocaust

the Kindertransport
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.
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Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies

the Holocaust heroes
Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.
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Irena Sendler and the children of the Warsaw Ghetto

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, risked her life as she helped more than four hundred Jewish children escape from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Behind the bedroom wall

Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

No surrender

a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism
2019
"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, [a young reader's adaptation of] . . . the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the treacherous final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now"--Provided by publisher.
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The righteous smuggler

Hendrik, a Dutch fisherman, smuggles Jews out of German-occupied Holland during World War II.

Jars of hope

how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
Describes how Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust by sneaking them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and hiding lists of their real names and new identities in jars that she buried in the ground.
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