jewish children in the holocaust

Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates and places, these stories are factual versions of their recollections.

Follows the early life of Ann Frank before the outbreak of World War II, with an emphasis on her writings and experiences in hiding.

Introduces young readers to the life of Anne Frank, the young Dutch Jewish Holocaust victim who became famous after her death for her poignant diary chronicling her life in hiding from the Nazis.

Looks at seven Jewish children who escaped the Nazis on a rescue operation called the Kindertransport.

When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

Two Jewish brothers, ten-year-old Jo and twelve-year-old Maurice, escape from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941 and spend the next three years in a desperate struggle for survival.

"A Japanese woman is determined to uncover the identity and destiny of the owner of a suitcase sent by a Holocaust museum. Her investigation takes her around the world before she finally solves the mystery, while using the journey to teach her students about the tragedy of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money. Isolated from her parents and living among pigs, horses, mice, and lice, Alona taught herself to read and drew on scraps of paper. In time, the money ran out and Alona was tossed into her parents' hiding place, at this point barely recognizing them. After Poland's liberation, Alona's mother was admitted to a terminal hospital for tuberculosis and Alona was handed over to a wealthy, arrogant family of Jewish survivors who eventually cast her off into an orphanage. Despite these daily horrors and dangers surrounding her, Alona's imagination would not let her give up. Today she lives in Israel and has written and illustrated over fifty children's books, including the international best seller, Once Upon a Potty.

Israel Meir Lau was eight when he emerged as one of the youngest survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War II. He could neither read nor write. Born in a small town in Poland in 1937, the son of the town's last chief rabbi, he is descended from an unbroken chain of rabbis spanning over 1,000 years. His entire family was murdered during the Holocaust with the exception of his brothers, Naphtali and Joshua, and an uncle who had already emigrated before the war. The miracle of his survival was made possible by the efforts of his brother Naphtali and a Russian prisoner. He is currently the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the state of Israel.