Kacer, Kathy

"It's 1926 and the Jews of Krakow know that the hatred and violence directed at them can only end in tragedy. Young Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but how can he give up his position as a celebrated clarinetist with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra? When Ann hears that the world-renowned violinist Bronislaw Huberman is auditioning Jewish musicians for a new orchestra in Palestine, she makes a bold move to try to save her family. But will it be enough?--Back cover.

"Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany. Despite her fears, she doesn't speak the language, she knows no one in Germany, and she's never been on an airplane, Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust. With the help of a handsome, English-speaking German boy, she discovers the sad facts of her mother's brief existence and faces the horrible truth about her father.

Tells the story of Werner Reich as a young boy when he met a magician while in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1938 Lily Toufar, a young Jewish girl, escapes to Shanghai to escape the Nazi party and finds a new set of challenges.

Lisa and Sol board the luxury ship St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years.

Eleven-year-old Margit and her mother fled 1944 Czechoslovakia and the Nazis for Toronto and found freedom, kindness and friends in the Kensington Market neighborhood, but worry about intolerance and whether she'll ever see her father again.

The story of a young Jewish girl named Gabi, whose Czechoslovakian town suffers at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War, and her unusual hiding place.

After young Clara and her family are sent by the Nazis to the Czechoslovakian ghetto of Terezin, she copes by looking forward to auditions for a children's opera, "Brundibar"--but plans change when she learns her friend Jacob is plotting an escape.

The story of Edith Schwalb, a Jewish child fugitive during the Holocaust, who was separated from her family and moved from hiding place to hiding place while traveling from Austria to Belgium and through France.