 John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bored and lonely
after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in
1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped
pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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 Jacob Glatstein
Emil and Karl
In Vienna,
Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan,
are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation
draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape
together.
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 Morris
Gleitzman
Once
After living in an
Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs
away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find
his parents.
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 Laura
Hillman
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a
Schindler's List Survivor
Presents the true
story of a young German Jewish girl 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.
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 Mal Peet
Tamar
In England in
1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death
of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of
his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi
occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever
cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
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 Jennifer Roy
Yellow Star
From 1939, when
Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned
ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's
Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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 Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds
History
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi
concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual
cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
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 Elie Wiesel
Night
Night offers a
personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of
Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer,
we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet.
Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the
townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not
until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's
"reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.
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 Jane Yolen
The Devil's Arithmetic
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time
travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in
Nazi-occupied Poland. Tired of her grandfather's horrific stories of
the Holocaust, Hannah learns a lesson about the importance of
remembering when she is transported back to Nazi-occupied Poland and
is taken to a death camp.
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Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Trying to make
sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of
Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling
talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding,
as well as their neighbors.
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