Herman, Gail
Summary: "As the Opening Ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympic Games commenced in London, a similar sporting competition was taking place a few miles away. But the men at Stoke Mandeville weren't your typical athletes. They were paralyzed World War II veterans. Thegames at Stoke Mandeville were so successful that they would eventually lead evolve into the Paralympics. Participants from all around the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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Summary: "A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019