holocaust, 1933-1945

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holocaust, 1933-1945

The story of the Holocaust

2006
Presents an overview of the Holocaust, in simple text with illustrations and photographs, describing how Adolf Hitler killed an estimated six million Jews during World War II.

Briar Rose

2002
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.

Good night, Maman

2001
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.

The final journey

1996
While on a cattle-truck to an unknown destination, Alice, a young Jewish girl, begins to piece together the meaning of events that were never fully explained to her as her family hid in their basement from the Germans during World War II.

Friedrich

1987
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.

The entertainer and the dybbuk

2009
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.

Rutka's notebook

a voice from the Holocaust
2008
Presents the diary of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl who wrote about what she witnessed in the months before she perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

The shawl

1990
Contains one short story and one novella focusing on a woman named Rosa who witnesses her child being murdered by a concentration camp guard.

Surviving the Holocaust

2006
Presents a study of the Holocaust of World War Two, and discusses the Nazi occupation of Europe, life in the ghettos, survival, and resistance.

Prelude to the Holocaust

2003
Offers an account of the events leading up to the Holocaust and the early days of that period of persecution.

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