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Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up in Los Angeles as a child of two cultures during the hostilities between Cuba and the United States.
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A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America.
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A graphic adaptation of the life of famed Jewish teen, Anne Frank, from the lives of her parents to her untimely death in a concentration camp.
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Through inmates’ own voices “Terezín” explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
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Tells about teens who tried to escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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This account describes experiences of teens in the Nazi concentration camps, from the work camps to the death camps.
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This book looks at the conditions of life for Jewish teens and children in Nazi ghettos.
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The account of an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp.
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Children respond to the Holocaust with a variety of writings and artwork as a way of making sense of it and creating hope for a more peaceful future.
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Some children were only three or four years old when they were hidden; some were teenagers. Some hid with neighbors or family, while many were with complete strangers, but all know the pain of losing their homes, their families, even their own names.
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Shares accounts of heroic Jews who organized to help others and sabotage the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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The story of a girl from a Polish ghetto who was sent to a concentration camp and survived the war after being placed on Schindler’s List.
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Eva Kor describes her experiences as a 10-year-old guinea pig of Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz.
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Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
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Tells the story of Regine Miller, who hid with four Belgian families during the German occupation.
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