germany

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Kindertransport

1995
The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.

In my enemy's house

1999
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.

Reunion

1997
The close friendship of two German boys, one of them Jewish, is destroyed when the Nazis gain power in their country.

Dark hours

2006
A grandmother tells her granddaughter the story of how she spent her sixteenth birthday trapped in a bathroom with her younger siblings after an air-raid attack on Germany during the end of World War II.

Resisters and rescuers--

standing up against the Holocaust
2003
Looks at how the Nazis took over Germany and different responses of people involved, particularly the many individuals and groups who fought back and helped to protect the victims of the Nazi regime.

Hitler's henchmen

2003
Profiles five men who held positions of power in Hitler's regime, reviewing their service to the Third Reich and pointing out the personality defects that made them invaluable to their leader.

I was there

1987
A young German boy narrates his experiences in the Hitler youth movement during the early years of the Third Reich.

The story of the unification of Germany

1991
Discusses the historical background and events leading up to the reunification of a divided Germany and the political and economic ramifications.

Lily Ren?e, escape artist

from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer
2011
A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?e Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

My brother's shadow

2011
In 1918 Berlin, Germany, sixteen-year-old Moritz struggles to do what is right on his newspaper job, in his relationship with his mother and sister who are outspoken socialists, and with his brother, who returns from the war physically and emotionally scarred.

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