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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
5) Exodus
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1958
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
626 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of the nation of Israel and its struggle for existence told through the eyes of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe's Jews? Americans and the Holocaust explores these enduring questions by gathering together more than one hundred primary sources that reveal how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. Drawing on groundbreaking research conducted for the United...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a world driven mad by war, two women find their lives inextricably bound by blood. Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Mandatory Palestine, seeking refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When she learns that he has died, she tries to take her own life in despair. After awakening in the hospital, Judith learns that Hana, a Muslim Arab nurse, has saved her life by donating her...
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