Discusses the efforts of the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries before the start of World War II.
Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Poland's Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust.
Relates the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes an afterword, author's note, sources, and a glossary.
Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust.
her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
Metselaar, Menno
2009
A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others lived in hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942 until their capture in August 1944.
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.
Herman Rosenblat, sent to a Nazi work camp at the age of sixteen, had encounters with a local girl who brought him apples every day through the fence, and years after being released from the camp Herman meets a familiar looking older girl named Roma.
A comprehensive guide to the stage adaptation of the award-winning book "Hana's Suitcase" that contains the script of the play and the full text of the original story, which recounts the experiences of Hana Brady, a young girl whose life was turned upside down by the Nazi invasion of her small Czech town.
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.
