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  The Zookeeper's Wife

  A War Story

  by Diane Ackerman

  A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List —in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark... (more)
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  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  by John Boyne

  Bruno is a normal 9 year old boy who lives in Berlin with his parents and his sister, Gretel. Bruno lives in a wondrous 5 level house and likes his home, but he soon finds out he will be leaving soon. Bruno quickly decides he doesn’t like his new home. There are no other boys on the street to play with, actually no children at all! Until he decides to look around. Until he finds the fence. Until he finds Shmuel,... (more)
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  Milkweed

  by Jerry Spinelli

  He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And... (more)
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  The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

  by Louise Murphy

  In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a... (more)
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  22 Britannia Road

  by Amanda Hodgkinson

  "Housekeeper or housewife?" the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of World War II. There her husband, Janusz, is already waiting for them at the little house at 22 Britannia Road. But the war has changed them all so utterly that they'll barely recognize one another when they are reunited. "Survivor," she... (more)
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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 1

  My Father Bleeds History

  by Art Spiegelman

  A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. Part I of a two volume series.
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  Yellow Star

  by Jennifer Rozines Roy

  Yellow Star is a Marshall Cavendish publication, written in poetry. About a girl trying to survie in WWll. A sad story with a great ending.
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  The Devil's Arithmetic

  by Jane Yolen

  Hannah thinks tonight’s Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. She travels back to the Holocaust time period and meets her great aunt as a teenager.
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  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  Originally published as "Schindler's Ark"Schindler's List is a remarkable work based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and... (more)
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  Skeletons at the Feast

  by Chris Bohjalian

  In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner... (more)
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  Once, Then, Now & After: Book 1

  Once

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Grade 4–7—Ten-year-old Felix and his young friend Zelda are on the run again in Morris Gleitzman's sequel to Once (Bolinda Audio, 2005). In the first book, the two children escape from a Polish orphanage that has been commandeered by Nazi soldiers. They find refuge with a kind dentist, only to be discovered and put on a train headed for the death camps. This book opens with Felix and Zelda fleeing from the Nazi... (more)
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  The Pianist

  The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

  by Władysław Szpilman

  The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist who survives the German invasion of Poland, the Warsaw ghetto, and the ultimate destruction of the city.
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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 2

  And Here My Troubles Began

  by Art Spiegelman

  MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  The publication of "The Tin Drum" in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
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  Night Soldiers: Book 10

  The Spies of Warsaw

  by Alan Furst

  An autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers’ bar in the city’s factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw , the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded by The New York Times as “America’s... (more)
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  Poland

  by James A. Michener

  Like the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's POLAND teems with vivid events and unforgettble characters. In the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries, three Polish families live out their destinies and the drama of a nation--in the grand tradition of a great James Michener saga. "POLAND is a monumental effort, a magnificent guide to a better understanding of the country's tribulations." CHICAGO... (more)
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  Briar Rose

  by Jane Yolen

  A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.” An American Library Association “100 Best Books for Teens” An American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults” Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover... (more)
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  In My Hands

  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

  by Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong

  IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it. “No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”— School Library JournalWhen World War II began, Irene Gutowna was a 17-year-old Polish nursing student. Six years later, she writes in this... (more)
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  Mila 18

  by Leon Uris

  It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination.  Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists.  Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.
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  The Painted Bird

  by Jerzy Kosinski

  A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, this classic novel, originally published in 1965, is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century.