jewish children in the holocaust

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller was born into a traditional Jewish family in a small Ukrainian village. She was able to evade the Nazi death squads with the help of a small group of Christian rescuers. Beset by hunger, and faced with the constant threat of execution, she miraculously survived. Today she shares her story and dedicates her life to furthering the cause of tolerance and hope.

The story of a child who, at the age of twelve, lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Like so many Holocaust victims, Felix Weinberg's early childhood years were idyllic. That changed in 1938 when his father traveled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late. Over the following years Felix survived five concentration camps. He lost his mother and brother in the camps and was liberated at Buchenwald. At the age of seventeen he was finally reunited with his father in Britain where they built a new life together.

Tells the story of Irena Sendler, a courageous Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

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.

Documentary on pre-World War II effort to rescue Jewish children from Nazi territory and bring them to England to live with foster families. Archival footage and testimony from child survivors, rescuers and parents.

Dramatization of the life and death of Anne Frank.

Explores the life of Anne Frank, a German Jewish girl who kept a diary while hiding from Hitler's army and was killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

Includes bibliographical references.

Presents a biographical look at the short life of Anne Frank including her birth in Frankfurt, Germany, her family's stay in hiding to avoid the Nazi's, and her legacy through the diary she kept while in hiding.

Krystyna Chiger describes growing up during the Holocaust in Lvov, Poland, and details her memories after her family decided to go into hiding inside the city's sewer system, and describes Leopold Socha, the Polish Catholic man--and former thief--who risked everything to help them.