refugees, jewish

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refugees, jewish

Along the tracks

1988
Recounts the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Union, is separated from his family, and undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.

A hero of our own

the story of Varian Fry
2001
In this biography of journalist Varian Fry, we have the first complete account of the most remarkable private American rescue effort of WWII.

A place to hide

[true stories of Holocaust rescues]
1993
The true story of some of the brave people in Europe who helped to hide and evacuate Jews during World War II, at the risk of their own lives.

Margot

In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.

Beyond these shores, 1934-1940

poems & diary of a Jewish girl who escaped from Nazi Germany
1996

Into the Arms of Strangers #570

stories of the Kindertransport
2000
Documentary on pre-World War II effort to rescue Jewish children from Nazi territory and bring them to England to live with foster families. Archival footage and testimony from child survivors, rescuers and parents.

Home free

2003
Eleven-year-old Margit and her mother fled 1944 Czechoslovakia and the Nazis for Toronto and found freedom, kindness and friends in the Kensington Market neighborhood, but worry about intolerance and whether she'll ever see her father again.

Displaced persons

the liberation and abuse of Holocaust survivors
2001
Describes Allied treatment of the Jews during and after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps and examines the struggles Jewish displaced persons faced, covering refugee internment camps, immigration policies, and the establishment of the State of Israel.

The survivors

1998
Describes the conditions of Holocaust survivors when they were liberated as well as their struggle as they attempt to rebuild their lives.

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