rescue

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Looks at the role of the Kindertransport during World War II, a rescue effort that sent children to other countries in order to escape the Nazies.

The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust.

Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, risked her life as she helped more than four hundred Jewish children escape from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.

Hendrik, a Dutch fisherman, smuggles Jews out of German-occupied Holland during World War II.

Describes how Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust by sneaking them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and hiding lists of their real names and new identities in jars that she buried in the ground.