persecutions

Isabel must try to save her father, who served as court physician to Spain's king and queen, when he is arrested by the Grand Inquisitor for his Jewish heritage during the Spanish Inquisition.

In 1957, Alexandra's immigrant family is living the North American dream. But Alexandra's world is turned upside down when she discovers a secret that her parents have kept. They are not Catholic, as Alexandra believes; they are Jewish.

The war-time saga of a young woman who endured the loss of her family, her community, and her very identity during World War II.

Compares three versions of "The Diary of Anne Frank, " her original entries, the diary Anne edited while in hiding, and the edition published by her father after the war; and includes information about the Frank family, details of the 1944 raid on their hiding place, and expert reports on the authenticity of the documents.

Provides an exploration of Jewish resistance movements in occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945, detailing their impact on Nazi efforts and how they culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Spotlights successes and failures these resistance movements experienced and reveals how they contributed to the founding of Israel after the war.

A group of Jewish children escaped from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation and survived by selling cigarettes.

A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.

Rachel, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, struggles to survive with her family and maintains hope by painting colorful flowers on her dingy apartment walls.

Joop, confronted by a brother he has not seen in sixty years, confesses a secret from his childhood that has scarred his entire life--that as a boy, in his desire to please his father, he set in motion the events that led the Nazis to the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family.