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Anne Frank

witness to history!
2021
". . . is the biography--in graphic novel format--of the courageous girl who hid with her family from Nazi occupants in Amsterdam, living for two years in a secret annex behind a bookcase. The story begins with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and chronicles the events of the 1930s and 1940s that led to World War II and the Holocaust. Every day spent in hiding brought new anxieties to Anne and her family, until the day they were discovered and sent to concentration camps"--Provided by publisher.
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Jack and Rochelle

a Holocaust story of love and resistance
2008
Jack and Rochelle Sutin survived the Holocaust and World War II as part of a band of Jewish resistance fighters hiding in the dense forests of Poland. Their story is told by their son, Lawrence, and the book effectively describes the reality of months spent hiding in a dank underground bunker with lice and disease. When they met and fell in love they did not know if they would live through the war. But over fifty years later, their survival is a tale of strength and courage.

Night

1960

Night

A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his God.

The upstairs room

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

La habitacion de arriba

1989
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

Child of the holocaust

1993
Jakob Kuperblum came home one day when he was eight to find his family and friends gone. They had been rounded up by the Germans only hours before. He tells the story of his survival.

The upstairs room

1984
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
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