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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
During the Second World War two Jewish sisters -- Janny and Lien Brilleslijper -- run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in The Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbours. Eventually, the nest is exposed and the Brilleslijper family put on one of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--became the nerves of a wide-ranging...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis march into Paris, an American woman uses her bookstore to aid the resistance, while a businessman chooses to sell his products to Germany-and send vital information home to the US. Can they work together for the higher good, or will it cost them everything they love?"--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister, Stefa. There is another gulf--between the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind in Warsaw, and her new, independent life in London. But as autumn of 1940 draws near, Germany begins a savage aerial bombing campaign in England, killing and displacing tens of thousands. Hanna, who narrowly escapes death, is recruited as a spy in an undercover operation...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Describes the formation of one of the most daring underground movements of World War II under the leadership of twenty-four-year-old Isaac Zuckerman, and the group's collective efforts to gather information, build an arms cache, participate in uprisings, and organize escape systems.
Author
Publisher
Anchor House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hard times are forcing Maude Fields to take in her estranged mother, Bea, whose secrets date to World War II. Bea arrives with a hand-embroidered recreation of La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde, the iconic 11th century Bayeux Tapestry. The replica contains clues to the identity of Maude's father and the mythical Dream Stitcher, Goldye, a Jewish freedom fighter who helped launch the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. With the help of her pregnant daughter...
12) The Avengers
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A gripping, true story about resistance, courage, and revenge during the Holocaust.
During World War II, in a Lithuanian ghetto, three comrades took courageous action against their German invaders: Abba Kovner, a Jewish partisan leader, produced a manifesto that called for his fellow Jews to take up arms against the Nazis; his future wife Vitka Kempner joined the FPO, a resistance organization; their friend, Ruzka Korczak, also joined the FPO, eager...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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 Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star...
15) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rescue efforts of Jewish partisans led by the Bielski Brothers, who fought against the Nazis in the on the Polish-Russian border.
17) Resistance
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follows aspiring mime artist Marcel Marceau as he joins the French Resistance during World War II to help save thousands of orphaned Jewish children.
19) Fighting back
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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