jewish children

Simple text and pictures illustrate the joys of Jewish summer camp.

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

A collection of articles and memoirs that provide insight into the life, death, and legacy of Anne Frank, a young Holocaust victim whose diary provided first-hand information about her family's experiences hiding from the Nazis.

The author recalls her childhood experiences of arriving in England from Germany at age seven in 1939, living in a strange country, and being forced to leave for New Jersey after the war to reunite with a mother she could not remember.

Frieda Korobkin recounts her experiences after she leaves her rabbinic family in Vienna at the age of six on a Kindertransport to England in order to escape Nazi persecution.

In the months before World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten-thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain.

Tells of Gil and Eleanor Kraus' dramatic rescue of fifty children from Vienna during World War II. Draws on Eleanor Kraus' memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with surviving children. Also includes black-and-white photographs, archival materials, and memorabilia.

Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden of marriageable age, is sent from her home in the Iraqi countryside in the 1940s to work and survive as a servant in Basra, where her growing relationship with Shafiq, a Jewish boy, becomes increasingly dangerous.

Traces the life of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy Zev Tsukerman, whose family moved to the United States from Odessa in the Soviet Union. Photographs capture the warmth of Zev's family and the faith that led them to a new life in America.

Jo has spent most of the war waiting and praying-waiting for the war to end and praying for the end to come quickly. Living in Lescun, France, Jo had thought he might escape the worst of the war. But things change when the Germans decide to set up an outpost right in town. Jo alone knows of another outpost-a reclusive widow's farm high in the hills.It is an escape point for growing band of Jewish children.