Theme: Jew

Letters from Rifka

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.

Descriptors: Belgium, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

A Frost in the Night

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Joan BlosIt is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her.

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

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany–Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn.Soon another letter arrived. “The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Hitler’s Canary

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton participate in the Danish Resistance during World War II.

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

Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny, brainy thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl. But that’s before she develops a hopeless crush on a certain British royal. And it’s definitely before she meets the oddly attractive Maximilian Minsky, her last hope for making the basketball team before it heads off to England and she is [...]

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

Along the Tracks

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When the train that he is on is bombed, Yankele, a young Polish refugee from the Nazi invasion, is separated from his mother and wanders along the tracks, braving hardship and danger, as he searches for his family.

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Poland, Russia, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Comments closed

Malka

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Hungary, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Comments closed