jewish children

In the months before World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten-thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain.

Tells of Gil and Eleanor Kraus' dramatic rescue of fifty children from Vienna during World War II. Draws on Eleanor Kraus' memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with surviving children. Also includes black-and-white photographs, archival materials, and memorabilia.

Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden of marriageable age, is sent from her home in the Iraqi countryside in the 1940s to work and survive as a servant in Basra, where her growing relationship with Shafiq, a Jewish boy, becomes increasingly dangerous.

Traces the life of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy Zev Tsukerman, whose family moved to the United States from Odessa in the Soviet Union. Photographs capture the warmth of Zev's family and the faith that led them to a new life in America.

Because the author's great-grandmother, a new immigrant to America, felt lonely, her mother devised a special way of helping her.

A collection of interviews in which young people from Eastern Europe describe what life is like as descendants of Holocaust survivors.