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Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy's struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Y

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The Nazi Invasion, 1944

Lauren Tarshis · 90 pages

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Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story

Malka Drucker, Michael Halperin · 117 pages

In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.

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The Puppet Boy Of Warsaw

Eva Weaver · 330 pages

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us ... Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a fool, a crocodile with half-painted teeth ... When

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages

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Elephant Run

Roland Smith · 336 pages

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Waiting For Anya

Michael Morpurgo · 172 pages

A boy living in a Pyrennean village under German occupation becomes involved in a network which helps Jews escape to Spain.

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Yellow Star

Jennifer Roy · 227 pages

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

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Night

Elie Wiesel · 126 pages

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A Father's Promise

Donna Lynn Hess · 250 pages

When the Nazis invade Poland and bomb his home city of Warsaw, young Rudi Kaplan finds out that he is Hitler's enemy because he is a Pole, a Jew, and a Christian. For weeks he watches as his friends and neighbors are kicked out of their homes, beaten, and arrested by the invaders. Rudi and his father try to help the wounded and starving Poles while keeping out of the Germans' way; but they know th

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Daniel's Story

Carol Matas · 136 pages

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

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The Book of Aron

Jim Shepard · 272 pages

Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy whose family is driven from the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto. As his family is slowly stripped away from him, Aron and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives, smuggling and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police (not t

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The Devil's Arithmetic

Jane Yolen · 170 pages

Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage a

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Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf · 208 pages

The story of a young fictionalized girl raised near Prague whose village is destroyed by the Germans in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi official (true event). "Eva" is jewish but appears to meet the aryan sterotype. She is one of thousands of children taken from their families and given to Nazi families to raise (true event). The book details "Eva's" struggle to survive and to remember who

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Stones in Water

Donna Jo Napoli · 209 pages

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Hitler's Canary

Sandi Toksvig · 208 pages

Bamsé Skolvud a 12 ans quand les nazis envahissent Copenhague. Son meilleur ami, Anton Beilin, est juif. Confronté à l'antisémitisme, il va tout faire pour protéger Anton et sa famille.

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After

Morris Gleitzman · 224 pages

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris · 304 pages

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover he speaks several l

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Wartime Lies

Louis Begley · 203 pages

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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe · 432 pages

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.

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The Auschwitz Escape

Joel C. Rosenberg · 468 pages

As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.

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Anna and the Swallow Man

Gavriel Savit · 248 pages

Krak w, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She s alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. And when t

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The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff · 363 pages

Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.

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