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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.

Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

This volume brings together some of the most important and stimulating contributions to our understanding of Nazi genocide. These readings have been selected for the purpose of acquainting students with a variety of views, some of classic stature, others very recent.

A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish G.I. and many of the victims of the camps.