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Read our blog post, "How to Talk with Children About the Holocaust: Expert Tips & Suggested Books," to learn more.
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We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance
Deborah Hopkinson
Format: Hardcover
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As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual... |
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The U.S. and the Holocaust
Ken Burns - PBS
Format: DVD
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Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation... |
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I am Anne Frank
Brad Meltzer - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from the Nazis during World War II.This engaging biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the... |
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Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
Meg Wiviott - Kar-Ben Pub
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A neighborhood cat observes the changes in German and Jewish families in Berlin during the period leading up to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. This cats-eye view introduces the Holocaust to children in a gentle way that can open discussion of this period., |
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What Was the Holocaust?
GAIL HERMAN - GROSSET & DUNLAP
Format: Print book
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A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event - the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps - six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,... |
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Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
Lia Levi - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with beautiful black-and-white... |
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My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List
Joshua M. Greene - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame.Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave... |
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Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust
Renee Hartman - Scholastic Nonfiction
Format: Hardcover
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RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf.I was my family's ears.Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This... |
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Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children
Kath Shackleton - Sourcebooks Explore
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe.This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children and young people who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz,... |
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