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Summary: "Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEEMiller, Irene
Summary: Irene Miller relates the story of her family's survival during the Holocaust. The family was stranded in a frozen field outside of Warsaw, Poland when the man hired to help them escape instead cheated and robbed them. The family struggled to survive as they become separated, reunited, and ultimately sent to a Siberian work camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan--Dearborn 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MilDown, Susan Brophy.
Summary: Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Polands Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust. By the time of her death in 2008, Irena had been honored by the governments of Poland and Israel, Pope John Paul II, and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SENMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORSarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARAckerman, Diane.
Summary: The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 AckRoy, Jennifer
Summary: "Tells Irena Sendler's story of saving 2,500 children during the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015