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Anne Frank

the diary of a young girl
2012
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.
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The night spies

Presents a fact-based story in which Gabi and her young cousin Max, hiding in a hayloft to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II, begin taking late-night excursions into the nearby woods and come across information that leads to their involvement with the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers.
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Surviving the Holocaust

Presents a study of the Holocaust of World War Two, and discusses the Nazi occupation of Europe, life in the ghettos, survival, and resistance.
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The diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942

Presents the writings and drawings of teenager, Petr Ginz, who died in 1944 at Auschwitz, recording his life under Nazi occupation, his transport to and life at Thereisenstadt concentration camp at fourteen, ending just prior to his transport to Auschwitz.
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Holocaust

the story of a survivor
Recounts the story of a female Jew, who survived a concentration camp while the rest of her family did not during the Holocaust, and includes facts and activities at the back.

Defiance

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

Inheritance

[a Nazi legacy and the journey to change it]
Reveals Monika Herwig's attempt to cope with the legacy of her father, Amon Goeth, who was the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp during World War II and details her meeting with Helen Jonas, a woman who was Goeth's prisoner and servant.

Night

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

The wall

Tells a story of the horrors endured by Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ending with the rescue of forty who escape through the sewers.

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