Relates the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes an afterword, author's note, sources, and a glossary.
Provides firsthand accounts and artwork from the Jewish people who were forced to live in Terezin, the Czechoslovakian town that was turned into a ghetto and later a transit camp by the Nazis during World War II.
Traces the history of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which opened in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and was built to educate people on the horrors of the Holocaust and honor the millions of people who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
Metselaar, Menno
2009
A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others lived in hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942 until their capture in August 1944.
The true story of fifteen-year-old Elly, who, along with her mother and brother, were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II-Birkenau concentration camp and how she alone survived.
When the Nazis invade Hungary, Susan and her sister are sent to a convent in order to protect them from persecution, where they try to adapt to the rules and rituals of a new religion and worry they will be found.
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
