Attema, Martha

DAUGHTER OF LIGHT In Holland, WWII is at its height. The harsh winter and the German forces have the Dutch population in their grip. Now electricity has been cut off, forcing 9-year-old Ria and her family to scramble for sources of heat and light.

2001

133 p.

Bergman, Tamar

ALONG THE TRACKS Still wearing badges that mark them as Jews, Yankele and his family flee Nazi-occupied Poland and begin their lives as refugees. But when the train theyƒ­re on is bombed, Yankele and his family are separated. Here Yankele's life as a refugee ends, and his life as one of the abandoned ones begins.

1991

245 P.

Dahlerg, Maurine

PLAY TO THE ANGEL In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, 12-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.

2000

183 P.

Dillon, Eilis

CHILDREN OF BACH A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution during World War II.

1992

164 P.

Drucker, Malka

JACOB’S RESCUE In answer to his daughters questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story. 1939.

1993

114 P.

Isaacs, Anne

TORN THREAD In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia, where she and her sister survive the war.

2000

183 p.

Johnston, Tony

THE HARMONICA Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, in this story illustrating the power of music.

2004

32 p.

Jung, Reinhardt

DREAMING IN BLACK & WHITE A boy dreams that he is a student during the Nazi Third Reich in Germany, where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped and labeled "not worth living." This powerful novel investigates the chilling modern history of Germany.

2003

112 p.

Kacer, Kathy

CLARA'S WAR Thirteen-year-old Clara and her younger brother Peter are living in Prague with their parents in 1943 when the family receives orders to join a transport. Their destination is Terezin (also known as Theresienstadt), a lesser-known concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. Although her family is separated for most of each day and the living conditions are harsh, Clara learns to find comfort in schoolwork, music, and friends, especially streetwise Jacob. He tells her what is really happening to the people chosen for further transports to Auschwitz, and that he plans to escape from Terezin when the time is right.

2001

185 p.

Kacer, Kathy

THE NIGHT SPIES October, 1944. It's the middle of WWII, and a young girl, her mother, and a cousin, have escaped the Nazi's round-up of Jewish people in their hometown. Now they must hide and survive. Based on true events and real characters. (Holocaust Remembrance)

2003

197 p.

Laird, Christa

SHADOW OF THE WALL Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization.

1989

138 p.

Levitin, Sonia

ROOM IN THE HEART Told from several points of view, this novel reveals how life in Copenhagen was soiled by Nazi occupation and how the Danes fought back with courage and kindness.

2005

290 p.

Matas, Carol

DANIEL’S STORY In the late 1930's, Daniel’s family is forced from their home in Frankfort and sent on a long and dangerous journey, frist to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and the to Auschwitz - the Nazi death camp.

1993

131P.

Matas, Carol

GREATER THAN ANGELS Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation. Based on actual occurances. 1940+.

1998

133 P.

Matas, Carol

IN MY ENEMY'S HOUSE When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.

1999

167 P.

Orlev, Uri

LYDIA, QUEEN OF PALESTINE A young Romanian Jewish girl describes her childhood in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.

1993

168 P.

Peck, Robert Newton

NINE MAN TREE In Depression-era Florida (1931), young Yoolee attempts to assume the responsibility of protecting his family from an unspeakable horror stalking the swamplands.

1998

170 P.

Radin, Ruth

ESCAPE TO THE FOREST A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.

2000

90 P.

Richter, Hans Peter

FRIEDRICH Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early thirties.At first, Friedrich seemed to be more fortunate. His father was well respected and prosperous, while his friend’s father had no job. Then Hitler came to power and things began to change. Friedrich was not allowed to join the Youth Group; he was expelled from school; and he became an orphan when his mother died and his father was arrested and deported. All because he was Jewish!

1970

138 P.

Roy, Jennifer

YELLOW STAR From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

1970

227 P.

Sachs, Marilyn

LOST IN AMERICA Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.

2005

150 p.

Schur, Maxine

SACRED SHADOWS When her German hometown becomes part of Poland after World War I, Lena, a young German Jew, struggles to come to terms with the anti-Semitism and anti-German hatred that seems to be growing around her.

1997

209 P.

Spring, Debbie

THE RIGHTEOUS SMUGGLER During World War II, when Peter, the young son of a fisherman in Amsterdam, notices his Jewish friends being barred from school and ostracized by their other classmates, he is determined to stand by them. His parents have always told him to fight injustice. So when Peter realizes what Hitler's policies ultimately mean for his Jewish friends and their families, he hatches a daring plan to help smuggle them out of the country by boat. Employing their strategy of Blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," the Nazis invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and quickly occupied the entire area. During the next five years, thousands of Dutch workers were deported to be used as slave labour and ninety percent of the Jewish population were sent to their deaths. In defiance of Nazi rule, brave Dutch people formed an underground resistance movement that was active throughout the war. Their main goal was to rescue Jewish people whenever possible - at considerable risk to themselves. Most of the rescuers chose to offer their homes as refuge. Others led the Jews over land to Switzerland or Spain. Escape by sea was rare, but The Righteous Smuggler is the adventure story of one of those rare rescuers.

2006

149 P.

Treseder, Terry

HEAR O ISRAEL A STORY OR THE WARSAW GHETTO A Jewish boy describes life in the Warsaw Ghetto and his family’s ultimate transference to and decimation in the camp of Treblinka.

1990

41 p.

Vos, Ida

ANNA IS STILL HERE A STORY OR THE WARSAW GHETTO 13-year-old Anna, who was a hidden child in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.

1990

41 p.

Vos, Ida

DANCING ON THE BRIDGE OF AVIGNON Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

1995

181 p.

Vos, Ida

HIDE AND SEEK A young Jewish girl living in Holland tells of her experiences during the Nazi occupation, her years in hiding, and the after shock when the war finally ends.

1981

130 p.

Vos, Ida

THE KEY IS LOST When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, 12- year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another.

2000

271 p.

Watts, Irene

GOOD-BYE MARIANNE A STORY OF GROWING UP IN NAZI GERMANY 1938 Berlin and Marianne Kohn's world was crumbling. First came the burning of neighborhood shops. The her father, a mild, goo-natured bookseller, was forced to live in hiding. Marianne was no longer allowed to go to school, to a café, or even to sit on a park bench. She became a part of the Kindertransporte at 71/2.

1998

104 P.

Williams, Laura

BEHIND THE BEDROOM WALL A STORY OF GROWING UP IN NAZI GERMANY 13-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hilter youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall. 1942 Germany.

1996

169 P.

Wiseman, Eva

MY CANARY YELLOW STAR Young Marta lives in Budapest during the Second World War. She must leave school when Jews are barred from classes. Then her father is arrested and sent to dig ditches in Yugoslavia. Soon her family must leave their apartment.

2001

232 P.

Yolen, Jane

THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC A STORY OF GROWING UP IN NAZI GERMANY Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

1988

164 P.