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Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. These objects and the memories they evoke are among the threads that scholar and writer Susan Rubin Suleiman uses to weave back together the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the hopes parents have for their children and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as a case study...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages : photos, illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
124 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Anne Frank emphasizing the sense of hope expressed in her diary. Provides additional information about her family, childhood and fate; features quotes from people who knew and cared for her and gives historical background on World War II.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
96 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the story of Lily Renee Wilheim, the Jewish girl who escaped from the Nazis through the Kindertransport operation, leaving her parents behind and traveling alone to England, later becoming a comic book artist in New York.
87) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life and importance of Anne Frank, supplemented with excerpts from her diary to give direct examples of her thoughts.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
152 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Their account is complete, covering the lives of Anne's parents, Edith and Otto; Anne's first years in Frankfurt; the rise of Nazism; the Franks' immigration to Amsterdam; war and occupation;...
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
174 p. : ill. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education center for children in Tokyo, received a shipment from the Auschwitz museum. Among the items she received was an empty suitcase with the words "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Orphan" written on it. Fumiko and the children at the center took it upon themselves to find out what became of Hana. The heartbreaking story they uncovered of a brave young girl killed in the Holocaust...
97) Erika's story
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.
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