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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
3) Internment
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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387 pages ; 22 cm
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"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As young children, they lived through 'humanity's darkest hour'. Now, over 70 years after World War II, FRONTLINE speaks with some of the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust. The film paints a portrait of what is most troubling to many survivors as they contemplate reaching the end of their lives - specifically the rise in anti-Semitic sentiments around the world.
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"Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl M©ơller arrives...
6) The extra
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
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Born in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie ten Boom assisted in the Nazi Resistance by helping Jews escape the regime. Arrested in 1944, Boom survived numerous death camps until the war's end. During these trying times, Boom relied on her unwavering faith in God. Here, Corrie ten Boom details her experiences with the war efforts.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
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2022.
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356 pages ; 20 cm.
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"Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tattooed and they're ordered to the maternity hut. Holding an innocent new-born baby, Ana knows the fate of so many are in her hands, and vows to do everything she can to save them. When two guards in their...
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This Holocaust tale follows Hans, an aspiring artist since childhood, who becomes a talented architect. He rises from the Hitler Youth to the SS with dreams of leading Germany into a bright, new age. When he is assigned to Auschwitz-Birkenau, he completely believes in the cause. But when his superiors ask him to use his architecture skills to design and oversee construction of the notorious gas chambers, his perspective changes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the TerezÃn ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
15) The hiding place
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families and her eventual arrest and imprisonment in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 digital videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells the story of two young Slovak Jews, who managed to escape from Auschwitz and later compiled a detailed report of the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp, documenting the atrocities and systematic genocide that were taking place there.
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"The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for Lana Hitchcock. Arriving home on the Big Island too late to reconcile with her estranged father, she is left alone to untangle the clues of his legacy, which lead to a secret property tucked away in the remote rain forest of Kilauea volcano. When the government starts taking away neighbors as suspected sympathizers, Lana shelters two young German girls, a Japanese fisherman and his son. As tensions...
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Pub. Date
p2015
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3 sound discs (180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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At the onset of World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in concentration camps. Inspired by Shigeru Yabu's youthful camp experiences, this is a poignant coming-of-age story and a celebration of the human spirit under duress.
19) The storyteller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
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Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
20) The Jersey brothers: a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
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Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
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