jewish children

"Spunky the monkey had a real cheerful streak, but when Spunky was grumpy things were bleaker than bleak! ... this book empowers kids to deal with disappointment and bad moods in a positive way." --back cover.

"Based on true events this novel recounts the daring actions of twelve-year-old Ruthie Arons and Wolfie Freund, refugees aboard the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner bound for Cuba, May 1939. From discovering a Nazi on board to helping Ruthie's father, the two children have to make some brave decisions"--.

A true account of a Jewish-German boy's survival during World War II describes how his family fled Nazi persecution throughout Europe before the capture of his parents forced him to fend for himself during the hardest times of the war.

Looks at the role of the Kindertransport during World War II, a rescue effort that sent children to other countries in order to escape the Nazies.

"The . . . true story of the Czech Kindertransport, which rescued 669 children from Nazi persecution on the eve of World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Ruth Kluger chronicles the experiences she had while growing up in Vienna during the Nazi occupation and explains how the time she spent in concentration camps impacted her life.

"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. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times"--Provided by publisher.

Tells Peter Feigl's story of running from the Nazis with his family and finally escaping to Switzerland.

"A coming of age story set in historic and diverse Montreal, where a young Jewish boy dreams of a brighter future just as Jackie Robinson is making history with baseball's Montreal Royals."--Provided by publisher.

"Dublin 1950. Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is so torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family, would it be too harrowing, or would it feel like home? In Berlin, a chance encounter with an old family friend sparks emotions for Liesl that she'd suppressed since she was a child. She finds herself desperately wanting to go back to those carefree days before Hitler, when life made sense, but why was her family so set against her return? Was it because they were worried about her as they claimed, or was there a darker, more sinister reason?" --Amazon.com.