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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless--and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A . . . nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in their school. Then, in 1944, ten-year-old Eva and her family were deported to Auschwitz. At its gates, Eva and Miriam were separated from their parents and other siblings, selected as subjects for Dr. Mengele's...
Publisher
Omnibus Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
This is the true story of two young Jewish brothers in German-occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage, and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves to survive the enemy invasion and try to bring their family back together. The heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo's enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of the two young Jewish boys. Paris, 1941: Joseph and Maurice are the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 388
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Director Claude Berri's introduction on the title screens reads "This film is a true story but seen through the imagination a child particularly sensitive to the tragic events which surrounded him in occupied France. The warm affection of this family of good people who took him in nevertheless leaves him with a certain poetic nostalgia for this time and a deep gratitude toward them." This film is his re-telling and re-creation of the life of a small...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of Japanese children unravel the story of George and Hana Brady, two young Jewish children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia, when they receive an old suitcase with Hana's name written on it from the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.
149) Los niños de la estrella amarilla: la esperanza encontrada en Le Chambon-sur-Lignon : una novela
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Jacob y Moisés Stein viven con su tía Judith en París, hasta que en agosto de 1942 se desata la gran redada contra los judíos extranjeros. Sus padres, conocidos dramaturgos alemanes, están ocultos en la Francia libre, pero, antes de que su tía logre enviarles al sur, los gendarmes los detienen y los llevan al Velódromo de Invierno, donde más de cuatro mil niños, cinco mil mujeres y tres mil hombres tuvieron que subsistir sin comida ni agua...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (63 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus never intended to become heroes. But in early 1939, as conditions were worsening for Jews living inside Nazi Germany, the Philadelphia couple embarked on a risky and improbable mission - an effort to rescue 50 Jewish children and bring them to safety in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
255 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Holocaust child-survivor shares her memories of escaping from Lida Ghetto in Belarus with her parents and joining the Partisans in the Lipiczany Forest as part of the Jewish Resistance"--
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.
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