"Sarah didn't think the Singers talked about long ago. That was when the Nazis gave them the blue numbers and put them in the concentration camp -- just because they were Jews." As Sarah buys ingredients for a surprise cake for her mother, the shopkeepers tell her not to forget their baking secrets. But Mr. and Mrs. Singer have another secret that makes Sarah afraid to even enter their store -- until they teach her the life-affirming message that no matter how difficult, the past should never b...
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Friedrich is a Jewish boy growing up in pre-war Germany. This story of dramatic, moving and tragic incidents is an indictment of racial hatred.
In Anna Olswanger’s Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the other boys, comes to consider Daniel his friend. The mystery of what’s in the box propels this short work, but it’s in the complex relationships of the schoolboys that the human story is revealed. In t...
No To Despair: Mordechai Anielewicz (They Said No)
by Rachel Hausfater
Set before and during the days of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Say No to Despair, part of the new They Said No series of histories, is a compelling and profound look at the final days of the life of Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization that led the insurrection against Nazi control in Poland during the Holocaust. Tracing the moments before and during the uprising up to Mordechai’s death in 1943, Hausfater delivers an uncompromising story of a revolutionary with a lesso...
September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn’t know where she’s going, or what’s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she’s going on ‘a little holiday’.Shirley is billeted in the country, with two boys from East End London, Kevin and Archie – and their experiences living in the strange, half-empty Red House, with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, will change their lives...
During World War II, eight-year-old Jewish orphan Katarina is living with her aunt and uncle in Slovakia. When Jews from nearby villages are deported, Katarina is sent to live with strangers who are told she is a Christian orphan. This is just the beginning of her remarkable story.
"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that?s based on a true story."--Amazon.com.
When nine-year-old Flossie starts her diary and scrapbook on July 27, 1939, her mother has already died and her father has just joined the Dorsetshire Regiment. The Second World War ends for Flossie on August 14, 1945, when her father comes home.
A History of the Holocaust
by Author Yehuda Bauer and Nili Keren
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
Computer genius GiGi is paired with Parrot, an expert linguist, on a secret mission to South America, trying to keep a legendary piece of pottery from falling into the wrong hands.
The Old, Brown Suitcase
by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz, Jagna Boraks-Nemetz, and Nemetz Lillian Boraks
After surviving the Holocaust, fourteen-year-old Slava immigrates from Poland to Canada in 1947, finding herself surrounded by strange customs and faced with too many new things to learn in order to fit in to her new life.
Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.
When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.
A little boy who can't spell or ever seem to please his parents spends a week with a kooky babysitter and makes a special friend.