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The year of goodbyes

a true story of friendship, family, and farewells
Debbie Levy reveals the story of her mother's life in 1938, the family's last year in Germany before they escaped Nazi persecution, based on the poems, inscriptions, and drawings collected in twelve-year-old Jutta's autograph book, and describes Jutta's life in New York City.
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Do not go gentle

a memoir of Jewish resistance in Poland, 1941-1945
An account of the Polish resistance partisans who attacked German outposts, derailed trains, etc.
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Anne Frank

the diary of a young girl
2012
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.
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Defiance

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

The diary of a young girl

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

Auschwitz

voices from the death camp
Examines Auschwitz, a death camp during the Holocaust, including its construction and daily workings, true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators, and how more than 1 million people were murdered there.

Kristallnacht

Examines the events across Germany on November 10, 1938, when the Nazis and the Hitler Youth destroyed Jewish shops and sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps.
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Surviving the angel of death

the story of a Mengele twin in Auschwitz
Eva Mozes Kor details the experiences she shared with her twin sister Miriam when they were sent to Auschwitz as children and were forced to endure medical experiments and other horrors under the care of Josef Mengele.

Anne Frank's diary

the graphic adaptation
2018
A comic adaptation of the diary penned by Anne Frank, a girl whose family was in hiding from the Nazis.
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