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• The Girl Who Sang

  a Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival

  Nadel, Estelle,

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  When the Nazis invade her small Polish town, Enia Feld is separated from her family and forced into hiding and at the mercy of her neighbors, in this gripping graphic memoir of survival and rediscovering your song during the Holocaust.

• Impossible Escape

  a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

  Sheinkin, Steve,

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  Told in tandem, these gripping true stories follow Rudolph, who escaped Auschwitz, becoming the first survivors to expose Nazi concentration camps to the world, and Gerta, his high school friend who began to cave under pressure from German Nazis in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Librarian of Auschwitz

  Iturbe, Antonio, 1967-

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  Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.

• Paper Hearts

  Wiviott, Meg,

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  Follows the story of two girls as they forge a powerful friendship that carries them through horrific circumstances.

• Somewhere There Is Still a Sun

  Gruenbaum, Michael,

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  When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.

• I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

  a Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

  Hillman, Laura

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  Presents the true story of a young girl from a Polish ghetto who was sent to a series of concentration camps and survived the war after being placed on Schindler's List, finally marrying a fellow survivor.

• Hana's Suitcase

  the Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery

  Levine, Karen, 1955-

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  A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

• In My Hands

  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

  Opdyke, Irene Gut • Armstrong, Jennifer

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  Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

• Briar Rose

  Yolen, Jane,

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  Takes the fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty, and tells it anew-set this time against the terrifying backdrop of the Holocaust.