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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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 József 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...
1522) Diplomats for the damned
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stories of four government officials who refused to follow orders so that they could save the lives of several thousand Jews during Hitler's regime: Aristides de Sousa Mendes of Portugal ; Harry Bingham IV, U.S. vice consul in Marseilles ; Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat in Hungary ; and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, German attaché in Denmark.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Nanea Mitchell had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But everything has changed since the war started, including Miss Smith's wonderful classroom. Nanea' dear friend Donna is gone, and now there's a new girl who seems to be getting all of Miss Smith's attention. There are also worries at home as Nanea' big brother talks about joining the Army. Nanea can't bear the thought of him leaving. In the swirl of changes, Nanea...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Describes Julia Child's early career with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), her service and accomplishments in the Far East, and her postwar years with husband Paul Child, also an OSS employee, and their response to accusations against them during the McCarthy witch hunts.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Nazi forces invaded Holland in 1940 and began rounding up Jews, Corrie ten Boom, her sister Betsie, and their elderly father risked their lives to save as many as possible. A hidden room was secretly built in their home where the oppressed Jews took refuge until a Gestapo raid put an end to their operation. For their "crimes," Corrie and Betsie were sent to the notorious concentration camp at Ravensbruck, where they suffered relentless cruelty....
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life and career of Moina Bell Michael, who made the red poppy of Flanders Fields a symbol to remind people of the sacrifice and courage of America's soldiers. Includes author's note and extra information.
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to save her dying mother, an American woman accepts her newspaper's assignment to travel to Italy where she takes photographs dangerously close to the front lines during World War II. But Rachel's real motive in this journey is to find the father she never knew, an artist she hopes can offer the comfort and support both she and her mother need to survive at such a desperate time.
In he quest, Rachel becomes involved with what will become...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
1530) Marika
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II.
1532) Soldier bear
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined tocatch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
1536) Back to Bataan
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After the fall of the Phillipines in WWII, colonel Joseph Maden of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors.
1537) Trust the stars
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Garza thrives in her unconventional, service-oriented life. By day, she helps troubled teens in inner-city Little Rock . . . by night, she creates a viral web series when she tries to better understand her mother's desperate decisions by retracing her steps with a camera. So far, Olivia has always been the anonymous narrator, but she's promised to reveal herself in the last stop on her documentary: Kenya. Prince Louis, heir to the throne of...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
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