Describes the famine that took place in Ukraine between 1921 and 1923, examining the political aspects behind the famine, and detailing the causes and outcome.
Presents in graphic novel format the life of a Jewish girl growing up in Poland during the 1940s, describing how the Nazi persecution led to the deaths of her parents, while she and her brothers survived the war by hiding in the neighboring forest.
Witnessing the murder of a peasant outside her small town in the Russian Ukraine in 1903, thirteen-year-old Libby triggers a wave of hate against her Jewish family, prompting them to consider emigrating to America.
Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.
Katrusya's family cannot afford Christmas, but they cut a small pine tree in the forest, decorate it with buttons, and, when baby spiders hatch in its branches, they especially enjoy the silvery webs that appear.
