poland

Simple text and illustrations describe the life of Zishe Breitbart, a Polish-born circus performer who was known for his incredible strength.

The people of Chelm, anxious to dispel their reputation as a town of fools, sends a delegation to Warsaw in search of answers, but it is young Rachel who comes up with the perfect solution after seeing Warsaw's impressive library.

A color-illustrated overview of Poland that describes its geography, daily life at home and school, food, clothing, animals, sports and recreation, and holidays and celebrations. Also includes instructions for a Polish art form, selected Polish vocabulary, and further resources.

In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.

Examines the nontraditional German orphanage created by doctor and writer Janusz Korczak, and discusses his efforts to help Jewish orphans during the Holocaust.

Discusses the people, traditions, folkways, holidays, family life, food, schools, sports, recreation, and history of Poland.

A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.

Recounts the true story of an eleven-year-old Jewish boy who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and a Siberian slave labor camp to find freedom in Palestine.

Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start.