rescue

The true story of some of the brave people in Europe who helped to hide and evacuate Jews during World War II, at the risk of their own lives.

Relates the true stories of heroic Jews who organized to help others and sabotage the Nazis during the Holocaust, including Georges Loinger's efforts to smuggle thousands of children from occupied France into Switzerland.

In 1935, Swede Raoul Wallenberg graduated from the University of Michigan. He returned to Sweden, but soon World War II erupted. Sweden remained neutral during the war, which enabled Wallenberg to travel as a salesman throughout Europe. Because of his brilliant command of languages and Swedish citizenship, Wallenberg was chosen to work for the U.S. War Refugee Board in Hungary. His mission was to rescue Jews in Budapest from the Nazis and their monstrous death camps. This volume’s gripping narrative transports readers to the turbulent last days of the war, when Wallenberg’s heroic actions helped to save thousands of Jews.

Although Oskar Schindler’s name is synonymous with Holocaust heroes, his life story is by no means black and white. Readers will be introduced to a man who, with the help of his wife and staff, protected more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. At the same time, this hero was a known womanizer with an alcohol problem. This enlightening book covers his upbringing, including his years in the Nazi Party, and his change of heart. Readers will find this volume to be educational, eye-opening, and inspiring.

Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.

Chronicles the successful efforts of the members of a small French community in the upper Loire Valley to offer shelter and protection to over 3,500 Jews during World War II.

During the Holocaust, many individuals and groups risked their lives to rescue Jews who had fled from Nazi-occupied territory. This is their story.

Examines the true stories of a variety of Jews and Noble Gentiles in World War II who helped the Jewish resistance in Nazi Europe through sabotage, rescue, and guerilla warfare operations done clandestinely.

Based upon the true experiences of the author's father, tells the fictional story of ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend, Anton, who participated in the Danish Resistance during World War II.