jewish girls

Presents a brief biography of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis with her family in a secret apartment for over two years, perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and whose diary became one of the most famous Holocaust memoirs ever published.

Inspired by the diaries of Anne Frank, Raimonda records her journey to America via Europe with her family. Presents the transition from the nightmarish world of Soviet Russia to her bewilderments, challenges, and achievments in America.

Nicole, a Christian girl assigned to read the diary of Anne Frank, finds herslf transported to Paris during the German occupation where she, too, is forced into hiding in an attic, and later encounters Frank on a train bound for Auschwitz.

Billie Weinstein has always depended on her older sister Cassie for advice and support, but when Cassie gets sick, the tables are turned, complicating Billie's already difficult teenage life.

Rachel is a young Hasidic woman who desperately wants freedoms that she is not allowed. Her rebelliousness ranges from wearing sheer stockings and reading romance novels to eating non kosher food. When her father arranges a marriage for her, she dreams of a different life.

Sixteen-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa, Russia to South Dakota as a Jewish mail-order bride. She wishes for a young, wealthy husband, her own house, freedom from physical labor, and privacy. But she is granted none of these as her husband is twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a hut with two teenage sons. Most troubling of all, Minna soon finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson and as a brutal winter closes in, she is forced to confront her despair as well as her desire.

Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

A brief biography of Anne Frank in graphic format descibing how she and her Jewish family were forced into hiding and later taken to the death camps by Nazis during World War II.

The author relates her experiences during World War II, when she was forced into hiding because of her Jewish heritage, and her eventual move to America after the war ended.

Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.