Children of the Ghetto
Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Irena's Children
Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476778515
Book Description
Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
The Children of the Ghetto: I
Author : Elias Khoury
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939810140
Book Description
Lit by the sublime beauty and tragedy of classical Arabic poetry, a Palestinian falafel seller in New York sets out to shape fragments of his family history Weaving history, memory, and poetry, this unforgettable novel—and the 1st book in a trilogy—provides a sprawling memorial to the Nakba and the strangled lives left in its wake. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changes everything. It is when Adam encounters his former teacher that Adam discovers the story he must tell. Ma’moun’s testimony brings Adam back to the first years of his life in the ghetto of Lydia, in Palestine, where his family endured thirst, hunger, and terror in the aftermath of unspeakable horror. With unmatched literary craft and empathy, Khoury peels away layers of lost stories and repressed memories to unveil Adam’s story. Oscillating between two narrators—the self-reflexive "Elias Khoury" and Adam himself—Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam engages real (and invented) scholarly texts, Khoury’s own work, and Adam’s lost notebooks in an intertextual account of a life shadowed by atrocity.
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780823422517
Book Description
She risked her life while helping to spirit Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
Irena
Author : Jean-David Morvan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781549306808
Book Description
Recounts Irena's days in hiding and her secret return to the heroic mission she still pursued despite her miraculous escape from execution by the Nazis who occupied war-torn Warsaw
Ghetto Cowboy
Author : G. Neri
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763654493
Book Description
A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way. When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philadelphia to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing Cole expects to see is a horse, let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t live in the inner city. But in his dad’s ’hood, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on. At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home. But when the City threatens to shut down the stables-- and take away the horse Cole has come to think of as his own-- he knows that it’s time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known urban riders of Philly and Brooklyn, this compelling tale of latter -day cowboy justice champions a world where your friends always have your back, especially when the chips are down.
Smuggled in Potato Sacks
Author : Solomon Abramovich
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
About 5,000 children were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto from 1941-1944, of whom some 250-300 were smuggled out of the ghetto, hidden by Gentiles and survived. This book is a collective memory of events that happened to Kaunas Jewry during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. It contains 50 stories of people who suffered through the Holocaust in their childhood in Kaunas. Most of the contributors are writing about their ordeal for the first time, after more then 60 years of silence. The stories cover the background of the families before the war, life in the Ghetto, and the main tragic events that happened in Kaunas during three years of fascist regime in Lithuania. The memoirs describe how children were smuggled out of the Ghetto and their experiences and feelings living with the gentiles who sheltered them.
My Life
Author : Alexander Brent
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781733151504
Book Description
A first-hand account of life in the ghettos of Brooklyn in the 1980s, Alexander L. Brent masterfully weaves a gritty tale of redemption and hope in the face of unimaginable obstacles. Violence, drugs, and gangs are a part of every-day life throughout our protagonist's childhood and he must make difficult choices as the crack-cocaine epidemic ravages his community.
Code Name Verity
Author : Elizabeth Wein
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1423153251
Book Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
Life in the Ghetto
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1991
Category : African American children
ISBN : 9780933849341
Book Description
A thirteen-year-old black girl from Pittsburgh describes what it is like to grow up in a tough inner-city neighborhood.
