world war, 1939-1945

He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66. January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy. Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it. If you want to survive, you have to get to Block 66. The Germans are cruel and determined - but they are not prepared for Buchenwald's secret resistance, which rises up with one mission only: to protect the camp's children from harm. This is the incredible true story of Moshe Kessler and Block 66 - the children's block that was at the forefront of one of the most shocking and inspiring stories of Holocaust survival.

Details the history of the United States' involvement in World War II from the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the defeat of Germany.

Provides an introduction to World War II including, the events that led to its outbreak, the leaders, the people who fought, and the battles that shaped the conflict.

During World War II, a young Jewish boy escapes his home in the ghetto after the Nazis invade, and eventually joins a resistance group in the forests of Poland.

"When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan"--Provided by publisher.

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Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris and is blind by age six. Her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, so she can memorize it and navigate the real streets. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint-Malo on the coast. In Germany, Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, which wins him a place with the Hitler Youth. Werner travels throughout Europe, and finally to Saint-Malo, where his meets Marie Laure.

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

Explores the contributions made by the ". . . United States Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army, which included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers, who used their skills to secretly and systematiclly replace fighting units, fool the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated"--Adapted fromdust jacket.

Tells the story of Operation Paperclip, a covet project to bring Nazi scientist and their families to the United States after World War II.