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Holocaust survivors Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Juvenile fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Warsaw Fiction Jews Jews Poland Fiction Jews Poland Juvenile fiction Poland World War, 1939-1945 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Poland FictionGratz, Alan
Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2013Cameron, Sharon
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Cameron 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMNielsen, Jennifer A
Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nielsen 2018Jenoff, Pam
Summary: "Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JenoffGrodstein, Lauren
Summary: "Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWachtel, Shirley Russak
Summary: "1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WACHesse, Monica
Summary: "Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESWitterick, J. L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WITOrlev, Uri
Summary: Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORLHesse, Karen.
Summary: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESMorris, Heather
Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners and used the job's freedom of movement to trade items taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORTarshis, Lauren
Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC TARHesse, Monica
Summary: -- Girl in the Blue Coat.Germany, 1945.Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HESEscobar, Mario
Summary: "International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse, an imprint of Harper Collins Focus LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EscobarTarshis, Lauren.
Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION TARRoy, Jennifer Rozines
Summary: From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ROYThoene, Bodie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOUnterman, Phoebe Eloise
Summary: Eva was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, and by the time she was six, Nazi occupation of Poland forced her family to move from their home into the Lodz ghetto, where they remained until they were ordered onto a transport to Auschwitz and then on to other equally frightening destinations. Eva stayed by her mother{u2019}s side almost all the time, and it was because of this that she has a story to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Landmark House, Ltd. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC UNTYolen, Jane
Summary: In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Yolen 2018Sarnowski, 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 SARNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIEGreene, Joshua
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 MEELeyson, Leon
Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Leyson 2013Shepard, Jim
Summary: "Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred. A. Knopf 2015