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Yossel, April 19, 1943

a story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
A graphic novel in which a young boy struggles to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.
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The war within these walls

Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.

Under the egg

Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.

The boy in the striped pajamas

a fable
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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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 shirts 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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Upon the head of the goat

a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.
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Tropical secrets

Holocaust refugees in Cuba
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
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In my hands

memories of a Holocaust rescuer
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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The hiding place

Presents the memoirs of a Dutch woman in which she tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her family's activities in the anti-Nazi underground.
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The Holocaust

a history of courage and resistance
Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich when more than six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically killed.
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