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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis. More than a thousand others would have been counted among the dead if not for a womanizing, heavy drinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler. One of the most remarkable narratives of the Holocaust, Schindler's List masterfully recreates the daring exploits of Schindler, who used...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The life-changing story of a young boy's struggle for survival in a Nazi-run concentration camp, narrated in the voice of Holocaust survivor Jack Mandelbaum.
When twelve-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is separated from his family and shipped off to the Blechhammer concentration camp, his life becomes a never-ending nightmare. With minimal food to eat and harsh living conditions threatening his health, Jack manages to survive by thinking of his family....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan,...
9) Night
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1982, c1960]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An enduring classic of Holocaust literature, Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles.
Author
Publisher
Viking/Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fate that enabled her to survive.
14) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Her beauty saved her - and condemned her. Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping...
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Dawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
17) All but my life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
All but My Life is the basis for the Academy Award–winning documentary from HBO, One Survivor Remembers. This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops-including the man who was to become her husband-in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Gerda takes us on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
March 12, 1938, is a dark day. Hitler's evil sweeps across Austria, destroying all in its path. Although violinist Elisa Lindheim is safe in Czechoslovakia--for the moment--she grieves over her beloved Vienna. Swastika flags now wave from every window. Jewish shops are destroyed. Neighbors' houses stand empty. The Jews and those who try to defend them are arrested or killed. The clock is running out for those the Nazis consider enemies of the state,...
19) Vienna prelude
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
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