A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.
Follows a very young Jewish orphan in the Warshaw ghetto as he slowly comes to understand the events surrounding him--that the jackbooted Nazis are not heroes, for example--and steals to help others survive.
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless--and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--Provided by the publisher.
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.
Simple text and illustrations introduce the life, achievements, and legacy of chemist Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Includes interactive questions, a timeline, and a glossary.
