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We remember the Holocaust

1995
Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

The hunted

1994
In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent.

Twenty and ten

1978
Twenty school children, living in a refuge in France, hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II and vow never to betray them.

The diary of a young girl

1952
The diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp during World War II.

Hidden on the mountain

stories of children sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon
2007
Presents a collection of memoirs by Jewish children hidden in the Le Chambon region of France during World War II. Includes photographs.

Lydia, queen of Palestine

1993
A young Romanian Jewish girl describes her childhood in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.

A boy in war

2008
Recounts the author's early years in occupied Holland during WWII as friends, neighbors, and items such as food, clothes, and fuel are taken away by the Nazis, covering his ability to find ways to play while helping his father protect guests from the enemy, and his life on the run with his mother after his father is taken.

The diary of a young girl

1953
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Torn thread

2000
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

Lydia, Queen of Palestine

1995
Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.

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