Of all the places in the world, Uri really loves to be at his grandparents' house. There he can stay up way past his bedtime and eat as many sweets from the chocolate box as he likes. There's only one forbidden place in that house: the third drawer in Grandpa's desk. This drawer is locked. No one ever opens it until one day when Uri finds the key to the third drawer. From that moment, nothing is ever the same. Grandpa's Third Drawer takes up the difficult challenge of discussing the Holocaust w...
When Frannie finds a gray striped shirt in the closet, she asks questions which lead her grandparents to tell her about their experience of the Holocaust.
The Handkerchief Map is an epistolary novel set during WWII and told from the point of view of three different characters: Franz, a young Nazi soldier who is beginning to question the war; Helga, a Russian girl bent on joining the resistance; and Susanna, a Jewish woman who has been separated from her husband and children and imprisoned in a concentration camp. By a teenage author, this novel is poetic yet accessible, and highlights the common humanity we all share.
As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann Rød, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
Guardian Angel House (Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers) (Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers)
by Kathy Clark
A prisoner in a Nazi labor camp, Herman soon loses the will to go on. Then a young girl appears on the other side of the barbed-wire fence--an angel bearing food and hope. Based on a true story.
Otto: Autobiografia De Un Osito De Peluche / the Autobiography of a Teddy Bear
by Tomi Ungerer
Otto es un osito de peluche hecho en Alemania. Es obsequiado a David por su cumpleanos, y con el y su amigo Oskar viven diversas aventuras. Cuando a David se lo llevan a un campo de concentracion, Otto se queda con Oskar. Cuando bombardean la ciudad, Oskar huye dejando atras a Otto, quien luego es rescatado por un soldado americano a quien le salva la vida. La hija del soldado recibe de regalo a Otto, roto y manchado, y finalmente el osito termina en un cubo de basura antes de ser rescatado e ir...
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
A teddy bear tells his life story, beginning with his creation in Germany prior to World War II, and continuing through the war and on to America, where eventually he is miraculously reunited with his original owner.
The Foreign Sky
by Elliott Stafford, Mahima Mantri, and Maheep Singh
Imprisoned at a camp called Auschwitz during World War II, twelve-year-old Zev and eleven-year-old David experience a Chanukah miracle in answer to their prayers.
Ahora también una gran producción cinematográfica titulada Alas blancas, coprotagonizada por Helen Mirren y Gillian Anderson. Libro ganador del Premio Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner 2020. En esta historia la abuela de Julian le cuenta cómo ella, Sara, fue acogida por una familia en un pueblo francés ocupado por los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Le explica cómo fue perseguida por ser judía y cómo el niño al que todos rechazaban se convirtió en su salvador y mejor amigo....
Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London's Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, Flossie must ensure all the souls in the cemetery stay at rest. This is a difficult job at the best of times for a twelve-year-old ghost, but it is World War II and each night enemy bombers hammer London. Even the dead are unsettled. When Flossie encounters the ghost of a German soldier carrying a mysterious object, she becomes suspicious. What is he up to? Before long, Flossie uncovers a sinister plot that could resul...
An exceptional and moving novel about the power of the imagination, illustrated by the winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.An exceptional and moving novel about the power of stories and the imagination from the publisher of A Monster Calls. December 1941. Britain is at war. Emmaline has been evacuated away from the bombs to Briar Hill Hospital in Shropshire. When she gets there she discovers a secret. It’s not to be shared, not to be told to anyone, even her friend Anna. But she’ll tell you. This...
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant’s house. How could she know she would fall in love with the wrong boy? “Look after each other . . . and get home safe. And when you do, tell everyone what you saw and what they did to us.” These are Hanna’s father’s parting words to her and her sister when their family is separated at the gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Her father’s words — and a black C-sharp piano...