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The most precious of cargoes : a taleby Jean-Claude GrumbergA fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter’s wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances.
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The lost shtetlby Max GrossA tiny Jewish shtetl that has peacefully escaped the devastations of the Holocaust and Cold War is wrenchingly forced into the 21st century by a marriage dispute that spins out of control.
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By Edith Eva Eger The award-winning author of The Choice draws on her experiences as a Holocaust survivor to offer practical, uplifting advice about how to recognize and stop destructive, self-sabotaging patterns to find freedom and greater life fulfillment.
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Franci's war : a woman's story of survivalby Franci EpsteinOne incredibly strong young woman—a glamorous Jewish fashion designer, who endured the horrors of the Holocaust along with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends offers powerful testimony in an intense, candid and sometimes funny account of those dark years.
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The brothers of Auschwitz by Malka AdlerThis extraordinary biographical novel, told in a poetic style reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, follows the harrowing journey of two brothers, separated by the Holocaust, as they find their way back to each other.
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Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasureby Menachem KaiserA young writer documents the story of his effort to reclaim his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s family apartment building in Poland, detailing his grandfather’s firsthand experiences as a slave laborer and his own confrontations with Nazi treasure hunters.
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Eli's promiseby Ronald H. BalsonThe National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Girl From Berlin explores the human cost of war and the consequences of survival in the story of a Polish business owner who seeks justice for a wartime betrayal.
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All but my lifeby Gerda Weissmann KleinA classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation.
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Out of hiding : a Holocaust survivor's journey to Americaby Ruth GruenerRuth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. This is a gripping and human account of a survivor's journey forward with timely connections to refugee and immigrant experiences worldwide today.
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We'll soon be home againby Jessica Bab BondeBased on interviews with six Holocaust survivors, these first-person point of view stories relate living through the de-humanization and starvation in concentration camps and the industrial-scale mass murder in extermination camps
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I am Anne Frankby Brad MeltzerA latest entry in the best-selling series introduces young readers to the life of Anne Frank, explaining how the diary she kept while in hiding during World War II continues to inspire the world to fight against discrimination.
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Chance : escape from the Holocaust by Uri ShulevitzThe Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship presents a heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Warsaw to the Soviet Union, where he experienced his awakening as an artist.
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By Julia Billet A survival story based on true events follows the experiences of a young Jewish photographer who is forced to go into hiding and make a perilous journey to the free zone when Germany seizes France during World War II.
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Behind the bookcase : Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the hiding placeby Barbara LowellMiep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family.
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The assignmentby Liza WiemerAn exploration of anti-Semitism, inspired by a real-life incident, finds two students refusing to participate in a debate assignment about World War II’s infamous “Final Solution” genocide plan when it requires them to investigate and represent Nazi perspectives.
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Anne Frank : the girl heard around the worldby Linda Elovitz MarshallAn introduction to the story of Anne Frank combines accessible prose and evocative illustrations to explain how the young writer detailed her life in hiding during World War II and how her voice has echoed in a world that tried to silence her.
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28 days : a novel of resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David SafierThe award-winning writer of television’s Berlin, Berlin presents a historical novel inspired by true events that traces the experiences of a Holocaust-era teen in the Warsaw Ghetto who joins a band of Resistance fighters to rise up against occupying Nazi forces.
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