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• The Devil's Arithmetic

  Yolen, Jane

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  Decades after the Holocaust, Hannah finds her family's Jewish holiday traditions to be boring - until she is whisked back in time to Poland in 1944 and assumes the identity of young Chaya, who is all too soon bound for a concentration…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hana's Suitcase

  Levine, Karen

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  When a young girl's suitcase made its way to a Holocaust center in Japan many years after World War II, the curator was inspired to find out as much as she could about the owner's life. There is a related DVD, Inside Hana's Suitcase.

• Maus. 1

  a Survivor's Tale. I, My Father Bleeds History

  Spiegelman, Art

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  Author/artist Art Spiegelman relates his father's first-hand account of the Holocaust - with the Jews represented as hunted mice and the Nazis depicted as cruel cats. First of two books. This Pulitzer Prize-winner is also available as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Secret Camera

  Life in the Lodz Ghetto

  Dabba Smith, Frank

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  It was important to the Nazis that no one be able to tell the true story of what was happening in the Jewish ghettoes, but one man was able to hold on to his camera and secretly record those dangerous days.

• Number the Stars

  Lowry, Lois

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  The Germans are hunting all the Jews in occupied Denmark to "relocate" them in camps. Annemarie's family takes in and hides her best friend, Ellen Rosen, despite the possibility of dangerous consequences. Winner of the Newbery Medal.

• Shadow Life

  a Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family

  Denenberg, Barry

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  Of course, the library owns Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, but this book goes deeper than her diary does into her family's experiences in the years before they were forced into hiding - and what happened after they were arrested.

• A Special Fate

  Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust

  Gold, Alison Leslie

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  Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese consul stationed in Lithuania who risked his life and his family members' by issuing travel visas to Jews who were desperate to escape the Holocaust. Acting against direct orders - and with his wife's support…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• T4

  a Novel in Verse

  LeZotte, Ann Clare

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  A novel in verse that tells of 13-year-old Paula who is Deaf and therefore targeted by the Nazis' T4 program to eliminate those they deemed medically unworthy. This aspect of the Holocaust isn't as widely known, although it is estimated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Terezín

  Voices From the Holocaust

  Thomson, Ruth, 1949-

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  Some of those living through the Holocaust at Terezin found ways to record what they experienced in secret. This non-fiction book contains once-hidden diaries, letters, drawings, and paintings that eventually illuminated the truth of what…Read moreRead more of this annotation