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1) Milkweed
Author
Language
English
Description
A homeless young boy joins an unruly gang of Jewish street kids. The horrors of the Holocaust don't become evident until Misha and his friends are rounded up and confined to the Warsaw ghetto.
2) Uprising
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
4) Once
Author
Series
Once series volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina's courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter-that is, once the...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of memory so that the...
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