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1) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Rebellions are built on hope. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of new friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards." --
Author
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, mainly Jewish women and girls, were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop, called the Upper Tailoring Studio, was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant's wife, and patronized by the...
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six...
5) Night
Author
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Language
English
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2023 Youth Media Award Winners
Golden Dome 2023-2024
J/YA Non Fiction
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
Golden Dome 2023-2024
J/YA Non Fiction
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
Description
"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches--and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of these three photographers."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and, through the lens of Shin's life, unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
10) The hiding place
Author
Language
English
Description
The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now repackaged for a new generation.
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 154 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of freedom by some of the world's most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps. The year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But around the world, oppressed and imprisoned people are still longing for freedom and asking, "What does it mean to be free?" This collection of poems explores...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.
Author
Series
Margarete's Journey volume 4
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1944, Germany: The war is still raging, as a young woman named Margarete hides from the Nazis in plain sight. With each day that passes, she takes more risks. But will one of those risks ultimately take her to the most evil place on earth? After a bombing led to her identity being mistaken, Margarete Rosenbaum has been living disguised as one of the Nazis themselves, for almost the entire war. But secretly--aided by Stefan, a resistance fighter she's...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
During World War II an Italian Jewish man uses his vivid imagination to convince his son they're playing a game at a concentration camp in order to keep his son's spirits up.
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16) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her beauty saved her - and condemned her. Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large type edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Series
Margarete's Journey volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
1943, Germany: Two years ago, fate gave a beautiful young Jewish woman named Margarete Rosenbaum the chance to survive the Nazis, by pretending to be one of them, hiding in plain sight. Now she must make a terrifying decision... Margarete lives as Annegret Huber would have, in a beautiful rural mansion by a forest in northern Germany. She is the heiress to the entire Huber fortune--one which, as she has devastatingly discovered, includes a factory...
19) Let me go
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
4 sound compact discs (ca. 4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful memoir, the author describes her relationship and final encounter with her mother, who abandoned the family 56 years earlier to pursue a career with the SS culminating in a position as a guard at Auschwitz.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set at Auschwitz in 1941, Sofia is the daughter of a doctor and a Jewish mother. When her father starts working for the SS, Sofia risks her life to save the imprisoned including a boy named Isaac.
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