jews

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Yellow star

2006
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Hidden child

2005
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Dave at night

1999
When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.

Anne Frank

1985
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.

Memories of Anne Frank

reflections of a childhood friend
1997
Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive.

I am a star--child of the Holocaust

1986
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

Golem

1996
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

When life gives you O.J.

2011
Ten-year-old Zelly Fried considers going along with her grandfather's crazy plan to convince her parents to buy her a dog which involves a "practice dog" named OJ.

Emma's poem

the voice of the Statue of Liberty
2010
Details the inspiration for and history of Emma Lazarus' sonnet which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's plaque.

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