Theme: Holocaust

Memories Of Survival

By Book Importer | Published: February 16, 2012

A story of surviving the Holocaust in Poland, illustrated in a collection of embroidered panels, and told in the survivor’s own words. The author, a survivor of the Holocaust, illustrates her experiences through fabric panels that capture her and her sister’s childhood as they, disguised as Catholic farmhands, are separated from their family and escape [...]

Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » 1 Comment

The Other Half of Life

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

A heartbreaking novel based on the true story of a World War II voyage.In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but not all of them [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Cuba, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Lily Pond

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Sweden » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Auslander

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

When Peter’s parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. But Peter is Volksdeutscher-of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler Youth poster. The Nazis decide he is racially valuable. Indeed, a prominent German family is pleased to adopt such [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Holocaust

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

Great Escapes presents gripping accounts of narrow escapes to iluminate historical events from a distinct, personal perspective from a Holocaust survivor.  

Descriptors: Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Poland » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

I Will Come Back For You

By Book Importer | Published: November 7, 2011

What was it like to grow up Jewish in Italy during World War II? Sit with a little girl as her grandmother tells the story of her childhood in Rome, of being separated from her father, and of going into hiding in the mountains. Based on the experiences of the author’s own family, this deeply [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Italy, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » 1 Comment

War Games

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Newbery Honor winner Audrey Couloumbis (“Getting Near to Baby”) and her husband, Akila, deliver this gripping novel based on Akila’s boyhood experiences during World War II, after the Germans invaded Greece. What were once just boys’ games soon become matters of life and death for 12-year-old Petros and his older brother, Zola.

Descriptors: Greece, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Paul B. Janeczko’s stirring new collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there. Hitler hailed Terezin (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more than a way station to the gas chambers. In his [...]

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Europe, Poetry, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Terezin

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezin explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a “show” [...]

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

This is the only biography for children about the remarkable Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler, who smuggled over 400 schildren out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Descriptors: Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poland, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment