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1) Passage to freedom: the Sugihara story

Author

Mochizuki, Ken

Formats

Book, Realia - Game, Kit, etc.

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Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000 Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.

2) In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Author

Opdyke, Irene Gut

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Recounts the experiences of the author, as a young Polish girl during World War II, who hid and saved Jewsduring the holocaust.

3) The faces of resistance

Author

Kallen, Stuart A

Series

Holocaust

Pub. Date

c1994

Description

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Shows how the Nazis exterminated millions of Jewish people, but how some tried to rescue the Jews, including uncounted thousands who risked their own lives to help.

4) Rescue: the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust

Author

Meltzer, Milton

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A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.

5) The resistance

Author

Bachrach, Deborah

Series

Holocaust library

Pub. Date

c1998

Description

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Discusses the efforts of Jews and non-Jews in various countries to stop the deadly persecution of Germany's Jewish population by the Nazis.

6) The righteous gentiles

Author

Sherrow, Victoria

Series

Holocaust library

Pub. Date

c1998

Description

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Presents an overview of non-Jews throughout Europe who tried to save Jews from persecution and extermination by the Nazis.

7) Heroes of the Holocaust

Author

Gottfried, Ted

Series

Holocaust (Twenty-First Century Books)

Pub. Date

[2001]

Description

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Describes resistance to the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe.

8) Oskar Schindler

Author

Roberts, Jack L

Pub. Date

[1996]

Description

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Chronicles Oskar Schindler's life during the Jewish Holocaust and his efforts to help his Jewish workers.

9) Hiding to survive: stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust

Author

Rosenberg, Maxine B

Pub. Date

[1994]

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First person accounts of fourteen Holocaust survivors who as children were hidden from the Nazis by non-Jews.

10) Oskar Schindler: saving Jews from the Holocaust

Author

Byers, Ann

Series

Holocaust heroes and Nazi criminals

Pub. Date

c2005

Description

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Presents a biography of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who risked his life and fortune to save over 1,200 Jews from Nazi execution, including information on how he joined the Nazi party to make money, traveled to Poland to start a new business, and ultimately used his factory as a shelter.

11) Beyond courage: the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust

Author

Rappaport, Doreen

Series

Candlewick on BrillianceAudio

Formats

Book, CD

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"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts--some chronicled in book form for the first time--Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.

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1) Passage to freedom: the Sugihara story

2) In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

3) The faces of resistance

4) Rescue: the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust

5) The resistance

6) The righteous gentiles

7) Heroes of the Holocaust

8) Oskar Schindler

9) Hiding to survive: stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust

10) Oskar Schindler: saving Jews from the Holocaust

11) Beyond courage: the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust