Kacer, Kathy

Collects essays, poems, letters, and artwork created by middle-grade youths from around North America, prompted by the question of what meaning they find in the history of the Holocaust.

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 an account of two young Jews during World War II, John Freund and Ruda Stadler, and provides information on how they resisted Nazi oppression by forming their own a secret community center and a newsletter called, 'Klepy".

Laura, a young girl preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, is given the diary of Sara Gittler, who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II; but as Laura researches Sara's life in order to honor her at the ceremony, she discovers secrets that will ultimately change her life.