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| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
Boyne, John |
F BOYNE |
| Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. |
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| Escaping into the Night |
Friedman, Dina D. |
YA FRIEDMAN |
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.
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| Emil and Karl |
Glatstein, Jacob |
YA GLASTEIN |
| In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together. |
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| A Family Secret |
Heuvel, Eric |
YA HUEVEL |
| While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared. |
| Number the Stars |
Lowry, Lois |
YA LOWRY |
| In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. |
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| Sisterland |
Newbery, Linda |
YA NEWBERY |
| When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II. |
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| Malka |
Pressler, Mirjam |
YA PRESSLER |
| In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto. |
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| Maus: A Survivor's Tale |
Spiegelman, Art |
YA SPIEGELMAN |
| Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. |
| Milkweed |
Spinelli, Jerry |
YA SPINELLI |
| He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. |
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| The Diary of a Young Girl |
Frank, Anne |
B FRANK |
| The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. |
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| I Have Lived a Thousand Years |
Jackson, Livia Bitton |
JB JACKSON |
| Elli Friedmann describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz and recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenaged camp inmates. |
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| Night |
Wiesel, Elie |
B WIESEL |
| Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. |
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