Unit 7: Europe and Holocaust Remembrance
Unit 7: Europe and Holocaust Remembrance
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
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.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Dounia shares with her granddaughter her story of childhood in Paris during the Holocaust and how she was hidden in order to save her life.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
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.
Contains the author's first-hand account of her childhood experiences in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. Includes photographs.
The author tells the story of her family's experiences as Jews in Hitler's Germany, tracing their horrifying journey from their home country to Holland and back again, living in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Bergen-Belson.
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
The journals of five teenagers who perished in the Holocaust.
Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler.
A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.
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.
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Explores the origins, devastation, and global impact of the Holocaust, profiling influential people and describing the experiences of those who were forced to live in the Nazi concentration camps.
Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Articles identify and describe individuals and events connected with the persecution of Jews and others across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Discusses the effects of the Holocaust on more than a million young people.
Tells the story of the Holocaust, tracing the origins of Nazi anti-Semitism; following the development of plans for the extermination of the Jews, with discussion of the ghettos, the final solution, deportations, the camps, resistance, rescuers, and other topics; and including responses to claims that the Holocaust never happened.
Tells the stories of eight young survivors of the Holocaust, focusing on their experiences after the war, and includes excerpts from interviews, and personal and archival photographs.
Relates tales of bravery in the stories of individuals and groups who took action against Nazi tyranny, often at personal cost, to help Jews and other victims.
A comic adaptation of the diary penned by Anne Frank, a girl whose family was in hiding from the Nazis.
Chronicles the brave exploits of Jaap Penraat, a young Dutch man, who risked his life during World War II to save the lives of over 400 Jews.
Chronicles the life of German businessman Oscar Schindler who saved the lives of many Jewish prisoners during World War II, at great personal risk to himself.
This book examines the history of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, and how it came to be built and used.
A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
Presents the life and exploits of a Nazi-hunter, including the stories of how he caught and brought to justice such infamous war criminals as Adolph Eichmann.
Presents a short biography of Anne Frank, who, along with her family and other Jews, hid in the annex of a building during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Herman Rosenblat, sent to a Nazi work camp at the age of sixteen, had encounters with a local girl who brought him apples every day through the fence, and years after being released from the camp Herman meets a familiar looking older girl named Roma.
Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
Seventeen-year-old Karl Schmidt is confused. His relatives in Germany rave about the new leader Adolf Hitler. But Karl's Jewish friend Rebecca tells a different story.
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
Discusses cases from the history of immigration in the U.S. in which immigrants are denied, such as the people aboard "The St. Louis" who were sent back to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, the detained, such as Japanese Americans during WWII, and the deported, such as Emma Goldman, who was sent back to Russia in 1919 after living in the U.S. for thirty years.
Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.