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Jewish children in the Holocaust Jewish youth Jews Jews Amsterdam Diaries United States World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanFrank, Anne
Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 FRAHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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Summary: When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KRIMochizuki, Ken
Summary: "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEGTunnell, Michael O.
Summary: "In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 TUNWright, Stephen L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WRISiegal, Nina
Summary: "Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists. The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SIEMatthews, Stephen R.
Summary: By the time Stephen Matthews was six years old, he had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from Nazi-occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. This memoir is told through Stephen's own experiences as well as writings from his mother's diaries and previously unpublished photos of historical significance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATTHEWS, STEPHEN R. MATO'Donnell, Svenja
Summary: "Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her grandmother and her mother had fled their home city of Königsberg in the far east of Germany near the end of World War II, never to return. But everything changed when O'Donnell traveled to Königsberg -- now known as Kaliningrad, and part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRMEN, INGE ODOMacCallum, Martha
Summary: "In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II ... Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima to defeat the Armed Forces of Emperor Hirohito--among them, a member of her own family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MACLambert, Ray (Arnold Ray)
Summary: "Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAMBERT, RAY LAMEnglund, Peter
Summary: "An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ENGStratton, Donald
Summary: A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: "Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021