"When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive"--Provided by publisher.
Details real-life survival stories from individuals who experienced the Holocaust, and provides a brief overview of how the Nazis persecuted Jewish people, homosexuals, mentally disabled, and others.
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.
five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust
Boas, Jacob
Presents excerpts from the diaries of five Jewish teenagers who were part of the millions of men, women, and children who died under Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II.
A color-illustrated biography of Anne Frank that covers her early childhood, her years in hiding, her death in the Bergen-Belsen camp, and the ways she has been remembered since her diary was published.
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Ruelle, Karen Gray
Presents the story of how Si Kaddour Benghabret, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, and other Muslims, gave Jews shelter and worked in the resistance to help them escape Nazi persecution during the German occupation of Paris.
Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration camp keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders him to play.
