holocaust, 1939-1945

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.

"[Presents] Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at and contains comics addressing the Holocaust.

Relates events from the childhood of Walter, who, at the age of five, had to flee his home in Germany with his family in order to avoid Nazi persecution, and spent years moving from city to city, eventually ending up living in a hidden village in the Dutch woods.

"Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother's belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? Why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before? . . . [This book is based on a] true story of the crafting of the heart, against all odds, within the confines of Auschwitz, and of the women of immeasurable resilience, courage, and loyalty who risked their lives for Sorale's mother, their friend"--Provided by publisher.

"Explore the history of the Holocaust, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly"--Provided by publisher.

Follows the lives of Jews determined to survive after the SS show up in their small Ukranian town, only weeks after the German invasion.

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.

Tells the story of Irena Sendler, a courageous Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.