Morris, Heather
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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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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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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Summary: For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MORAdler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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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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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, Call number: J FICTION TARMorris, Heather
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MorrisMingarelli, Hubert
Summary: In Polish countryside, during the war, three German soldiers are ordered to track down Jews for execution. Having time to contemplate the mission, their differing sympathies begin to splinter the group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mingarelli 2016Koons, Jon.
Summary: The villagers of Chelm, in the rabbi's absence, send a messenger to a nearby village in order to be reminded how to prepare for the coming Hanukkah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KOONielsen, 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 2018Apelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APEGross, Max
Summary: "What if there was a town that Hitler missed? For over fifty years the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol has existed virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared of the Holocaust and Cold War, Kreskol has enjoyed an isolated peace. But when a marriage dispute spirals out of control, Kreskol is suddenly rediscovered and brought into the 21st Century. Pesha is in a loveless, arranged marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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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 HESWitterick, J. L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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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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Summary: Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENGeffen, Adiva
Summary: "Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate...She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland...This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Adiva Geffen] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeffenGrodstein, Lauren
Summary: "This book is a masterpiece: profound, gripping, urgent, and beautiful." --Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles. A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II. On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1992