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Anne Frank

"[Presents the story of Anne Frank's] extraordinary life and . . . the diary that would change the world"--Back cover.

My survival

a girl on Schindler's list
The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.
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They went left

"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--Provided by publisher.
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Benno and the Night of Broken Glass

In 1938 Berlin, Germany, a cat sees Rosenstrasse change from a peaceful neighborhood of Jews and Gentiles to an unfriendly place where, one November night, men in brown +hirts destroy Jewish-owned businesses and arrest or kill Jewish people. Includes facts about Kristallnacht and a list of related books and web resources.
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An interrupted life

the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
Presents the diaries and letters--many of which were written in the Nazi transit camp Westerbork--of Etty Hillesum, a Jewish woman from Holland who died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
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Behind the bedroom wall

Korinna, an active member of a Nazi youth group, finds her loyalties are put to the test when she discovers her parents are hiding a Jewish family behind the wall of her bedroom.
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Star of fear, star of hope

Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.
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My canary yellow star

A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.
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Anne Frank

her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
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.
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