holocaust, 1933-1945

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holocaust, 1933-1945

Origins of the Holocaust

Describes Jewish persecution throughout the centuries and chronicles Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
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Maus

a survivor's tale
Memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. The first volume takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz.
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Anne Frank

child of the Holocaust
A biography of the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary, published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp, made her famous all over the world.
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Surviving Hitler

a boy in the Nazi death camps
A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager.
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Torn thread

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

Anne Frank

hidden hope
Chronicles the life of Anne Frank, discussing her childhood in Germany, years hiding from Nazi troops during World War II, the journal entries that made her famous, and other related topics.

Liberation

teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who liberated them
Tells the story, in their own words, of two survivors of World War II concentration camps, and two American soldiers who helped liberate the camps.

Persecution and emigration

Presents a short history of the period between 1933 to the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, and describes the persecution of the Jews, the efforts of many to emigrate to other countries, and why the majority of the Jewish people were powerless against the Nazi regime.

Fighting back

A photo-illustrated look at the ways Jews and non-Jews resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust, covering Jews who went into hiding or hid in plain sight, uprisings in and escapes from the ghettos and camps, and the efforts of partisan groups.

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