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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

Summary: "During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRA

Masih, Tara Lynn

Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MAS

Freethy, Sarah

Summary: "Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Thoene, Bodie

Summary: Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless... .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THOENE

Diamant, Anita.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GRA

Dweck, Nicole.

Summary: "Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga in the tradition of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Nomi Eve's The Family Orchard. In 1544, as Inquisition fires rage in Portugal, young José Mendez...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DWE

Gordon, Cambria

Summary: As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GOR

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOR

Clayton, Meg Waite

Summary: 1936. Stephan Neuman is the son of a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna. His best friend is Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. Their world is shattered when the Nazis take control. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. But after the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Clayton 2019

Gregory, Philippa.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Abriel, Anita

Summary: "It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abriel 2019

Benedict, Marie

2 holds on 6 copies

Summary: Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Steel, Danielle

Summary: In the lead-up to WWII, Sophie Alexander, the daughter of a Berlin surgeon, assumes control of the household when her mother dies, while also volunteering at the hospital. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power has Sophia concerned, so she becomes increasingly involved in the resistance, assisting nuns to transport Jewish children to safety, finding herself under surveillance.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Harmel, Kristin

Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Albom, Mitch

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Orringer, Julie

Summary: In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORR

Cantor, Jillian.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: 1959. Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind. Margie is really Margot Frank, older sister of Anne, who did not die in Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who instead escaped the Nazis for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CAN

Spinelli, Jerry.

Summary: Set in Nazi-occupied Poland just before the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Spinelli's first historical novel tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival though the eyes of a young orphan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPI

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Diamant, Anita.

Summary: Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIA

Albom, Mitch

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALB

Appelfeld, Aharon

Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Appelfeld 2020

Gohlke, Cathy

Summary: In the early days of WWII, American Claire Stewart smuggles five French Jewish children across the channel before the Nazis storm Paris, and brings them to her estranged aunt's Lake District estate as refugees. Lady Miranda Langford agrees to take them in, but only if Claire stays to help care for them. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire agrees, and soon fellow...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOH

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