Living and Dying in Nazi Concentration Camps (Tales of Atrocity and Resistance: First-Person Stories of Te)
by Hallie Murray and Ann Byers
When Grownups Play at War is the unique, compelling memoir of a young Polish Jewish girl during the Second World War. In an authentic voice based on first-hand experience, Gruda gives us a rare perspective on the life of a family fleeing from Poland to Uzebekistan. Her account lays bare the trials of coming of age amidst the constant upheavals of her wartime years. Gruda conveys a sense of immediacy and humanity to her description of the daily realities of the wartime experiences of so many Jewi...
To Look a Nazi in the Eye
by Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz
This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers tells the true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz's time in Germany, where she went to witness the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
A sure to be classic in Holocaust literature from an underrepresented voice. Squirrel is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance & French Underground is the incredible story of Mary Rostad’s early life. Rostad was 16 years old when the Nazis conquered her home city of Brussels in 1940. She joined the resistance movement, serving in Belgium and later France, primarily as a courier of underground documents. At the end of World War II, Rostad met U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Allen Rostad.
We'll Soon Be Home Again
by Jessica Bab Bonde, Peter Bergting, and Sunshine Barbito
The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes the book accessible, despite its difficult subject. Using first-person point of view allows the storie...
“A poignant overview of life inside the ghetto.” — School Library Journal (starred review) Between 1941 and 1945, the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, was a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a Nazi “show” camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world about the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews. Here is their story, told through the firsthand accounts and artwork of those who were there. Back matter...
From Cover to Cover (Revised Edition) Evaluating and Reviewing Children' s Books
by Kathleen T Horning
Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
by Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West
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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Winner of the 2023 Gold Moonbeam Children's Book Award in Non-Fiction: Chapter Book Commended as a "moving and hopeful story of courage and perseverance" in a starred review by Booklist, American Shoes is a profound mosaic of memories recounting 15-year-old Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke’s escape from Nazi Germany, leaving her life and family behind to forge ahead in an America she left as a small child. Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the ent...
Teenage Resistance to the Nazi Regime (Tales of Atrocity and Resistance: First-Person Stories of Te)
by Hallie Murray and Ann Byers
Tales of Atrocity and Resistance: First-Person Stories of Teens in the Holocaust (Tales of Atrocity and Resistance: First-Person Stories of Te)
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
World War II History for Teens (History for Teens)
by Benjamin Mack-Jackson