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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
5) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The story of Andrée Geulen and Ida Sterno, who worked with the Committee for the Defense of Jews to hide more than three thousand Jewish children in Belgium during World War II"--
"Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andree Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2024.
Description
"Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London.
He's never left Berlin. He barely speaks English. He doesn't want to leave his parents behind.
On the Kindertransport boat to England, Max has never felt more alone---until he meets two unexpected traveling companions: a kobold named Berg and a dybbuk named Stein.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
Author
Publisher
Windsor's Golden Series Publications
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
This carefully researched book is a significant addition to this vital field of knowledge. It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliest recorded times, of the black races of the Middle East and Africa. --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Among Holocaust survivor stories, Eva Kor's experience as a 10-year-old guinea pig of Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz is exceptional. It is the story of a child facing extraordinary evil and cruelty. Eva Kor has been the subject of a documentary, "Forgiving Dr. Mengele," and other media coverage.
14) Mighty Micah
Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press, an Imprint of Behrman House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A young boy drops the gragger he got at a Purim party, and various animals investigate the noisemaker, but eventually it ends up back at the boy's home, where he finds it in the morning. Includes information on the Purim holiday.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2024, 2017,
Formats
Description
"Paul Colbert's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better.
Then Paul finds an American paratrooper stuck in a tree. When Paul helps the soldier, he discovers a secret resistance movement - and he learns the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis. But first, the resistance needs Paul's help.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other--and live their lives accordingly? Writing sympathetically...
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