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Yellow star

2008
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

The lost childhood

a memoir
1989
The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.

The rise of Nazi Germany

1999
Studies the rise of Nazi Germany and discusses the political, social, and economic events that caused it.

The diary of a young girl

the definitive edition
1995
An adolescent Jewish girl chronicles her experiences over the years she and several others hid from the Nazis in a secret apartment before being discovered and sent to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

The diary of a young girl

1993
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

Smoke to flame

September 1935-December 1938
1998
Uses primary source material along with historical narrative to explore the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between September 1935 and December 1938.

A firestorm unleashed

January 1942-June 1943
1998
Uses primary source material along with historical narrative to explore the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1942 to June 1943.

The cats in Krasinski Square

2004
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

The year of goodbyes

a true story of friendship, family, and farewells
2010
Debbie Levy reveals the story of her mother's life in 1938, the family's last year in Germany before they escaped Nazi persecution, based on the poems, inscriptions, and drawings collected in twelve-year-old Jutta's autograph book, and describes Jutta's life in New York City.

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