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Rutka's notebook

Rutka Laskier, rashut ha-zikaron la-Sho'ah ?vela-gevurah Yad ?va-shem, Daniella Zaidman-Mauer

More than sixty years after her 1943 death in Auschwitz, the words of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl from Bedzin, Poland, recreate the everyday lives of the Polish Jews of her to

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Voyage

Ad?ele Geras

Relates the experiences of a group of Jewish young people in the early twentieth century as they journey from their homes in Eastern Europe to the United States in search of a new life

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Pastor Andr?e Trocm?e

Allison Stark Draper

Depicts the efforts of one village in France, under the spiritual guidance of Andr?e Trocm?e, to protect thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II.

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My secret camera

Frank Dabba Smith, Mendel Grossman

Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust

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Raoul Wallenberg

Sharon Linnea

Traces the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and then mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest

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Hidden On the Mountain

Deborah Durland DeSaix, Karen Gray Ruelle

Relates how Jewish families found a safe haven in a small town in Le Chambon, France, where a community of Protestants, having once been persecuted for their religion, sympathized with their struggle

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Young People Speak

Susan Meschel

Eleven survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary recollect their childhood experiences during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution.

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Writers of the Holocaust

Sherri Lederman Mandell

Profiles ten men and women who have written about or whose writings were influenced by their experiences during the Holocaust.

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We Are Witnesses

Each dairy reveals how that individual coped with theimpossible situation of the Holocaust.

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Karen Zeinert

Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis and discusses the activities of the Jewish resistance prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943.

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