holocaust, 1939-1945

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Presents the memoirs of a Dutch woman in which she tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her family's activities in the anti-Nazi underground.

Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich when more than six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically killed.

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.

Presents a fact-based story in which Gabi and her young cousin Max, hiding in a hayloft to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II, begin taking late-night excursions into the nearby woods and come across information that leads to their involvement with the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers.

Presents a study of the Holocaust of World War Two, and discusses the Nazi occupation of Europe, life in the ghettos, survival, and resistance.

Presents the writings and drawings of teenager, Petr Ginz, who died in 1944 at Auschwitz, recording his life under Nazi occupation, his transport to and life at Thereisenstadt concentration camp at fourteen, ending just prior to his transport to Auschwitz.

Recounts the story of a female Jew, who survived a concentration camp while the rest of her family did not during the Holocaust, and includes facts and activities at the back.