jewish ghettos

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jewish ghettos

The wall

1988
Tells a story of the horrors endured by Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ending with the rescue of forty who escape through the sewers.

Rivka's way

2001
Unsure about her upcoming marriage and eager to see what lies beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter in 1778, fifteen-year-old Rivka Lieberman takes great risks to venture outside, where her many new experiences include friendship with a Christian boy.

Yossel, April 19, 1943

a story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
2003
Presents a graphic novel that tells the story of a fifteen year old boy and his family living in the ghetto's of Warsaw, Poland during the Nazi occupation of World War II.

The Emperor of lies

2011
In February 1940, the Nazis established the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. They appointed Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski to be ghetto administrator. For the next four and a half years Rumkowski controlled the lives of over a quarter-million Jews and sought to make the ghetto a productive industrial complex. Did he hope to save lives by doing this or did he have other motives? This novel brings to life what it was like to live in the ghetto during that time.

Yossel, April 19, 1943

2011
Fifteen-year-old Yossel, a Jew who only wants to be an artist, struggles to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, while recording the horror he sees around him in his sketch pad in the days leading up to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

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