Author : Jack Kuper
Publisher : Robson Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 9781849543842
Jack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language and abandon his religion in order to survive.
Author : Helen Epstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0140112847
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.
Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756544424
Presents stories of children that through a combination of strength, cleverness, the help of others, and more often than not, simple good luck, survived Adolf Hitler's reign of terror, known as the Holocaust.
Author : Stacy Cretzmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0190288639
In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. "Remember," her older cousin Jeannette warns her, "your name is Renee and you are French!" A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect them. Eventually the family is forced to separate, and young Ruth survives the war in an orphanage where she is not allowed to see or even mention her parents. Without the trappings of lofty language or the faceless perspective of history, this first-person account poignantly recreates the terror of war seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Your Name Is Renee is a tale of suffering and redemption, fear and hope, which is bound to stir even the most hardened heart.
Author : Suzanne Vromen
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199739056
In the summer of 1942 in Belgium, Jewish parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, they quite often found sanctuary in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent--the secrecy, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness--all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation.
Author : Kath Shackleton
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1492688940
"Perhaps there is no simple, easy way to educate children about the Holocaust. Yet [this] new extraordinary work in the form of a nonfiction graphic novel for children is a valiant attempt to do just that. These testimonials... serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again."—BookTrib Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors' courage. These remarkable testimonials serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again. Features a current photograph of each contributor and an update about their lives, along with a glossary and timeline to support reader understanding of this period in world history.
Author : Carol Ann Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101157399
Anne Frank's diary changed how the world saw the Holocaust—this book will change how you see Anne Frank. Beginning with Otto Frank's idyllic childhood, follow the family's journey from its proud German roots through life under Nazi occupation to their horrifying concentration camp experiences. Interspersed with their story are personal accounts of survivors, excerpts from the other victims' journals, and black-and-white photos. A perfect blend of historical information and emotional narratives, this book makes an excellent companion to the diary, offering an indepth look at the life of Anne Frank, and an intimate history of the young people who experienced the Holocaust.
Author : Loic Dauvillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596438738
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
Author : Laurel Holliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439121974
Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. Some of the diarists include: a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. And many others. These heartbreaking stories paint a harrowing picture of a genocide that will never be forgotten, and a war that shaped many generations to follow. All of their voices and visions ennoble us all.
Author : Allan Zullo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338157361
Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust. These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way to make it through the nightmare of war. Some made daring escapes into the unknown, others disguised their true identities, and many witnessed unimaginable horrors. But what they all shared was the unshakable belief in-- and hope for-- survival. Their legacy of courage in the face of hatred will move you, captivate you, and, ultimately, inspire you.
