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English
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
3) Hollowthorn
Author
Series
Ravenfall novel volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
When a demon from Jewish lore threatens the Tree of Life, a source of untold power and immortality, Anna Ballinkay and Colin Pierce enter the Otherworld to stop him, where they discover that the true danger is closer than they think.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Becca's family is in turmoil and her home is haunted by demons, but with the help of her best friends, Naomi and Eitan, and the lessons learned from their last tussle with mythological figures, she is determined to defend her loved one sand save Hanukkah.
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Roaring Brook Press
Language
English
Description
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the...
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English
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"1960, New York City: College student Rita Klein is a pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming--until she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. At the Hudson Home for Unwed Mothers, social workers pressure her into surrendering her baby for adoption. Rita is struggling to get on with her life when she meets Jacob Nassy, a charming yet troubled man from the Netherlands who is traumatized by his childhood experience of being separated from...
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The Azrieli Foundation
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English
Description
"Ben Carniol is a young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Belgium whose parents send him to live with non-Jews in the countryside to save him. There he lives in hiding, passing as a Catholic child, attending church and school. Ben's parents are murdered in the Holocaust, and after the war, Ben's extended family in Ottawa, Canada, send for him. He immigrates to Canada and is adopted by his family. The memoir recounts his coming of age, struggles with adapting...
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Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of resistance and uplift."--
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic....
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When Jz̤sef Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
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