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 German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.
Lousie Murphy: New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
(I am crediting Heidi for this find!! I haven't yet decided on a theme and this seems to fit so well with the Holocaust theme.)
This collection of extraordinary true stories-including nine stories new to this expanded edition- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the High Holidays-only to see it given to the Christian janitor because it is not kosher; we meet Alexandra, a Polish resistance fighter who enlists the teenaged Bernard in the cause but who perishes while he survives; and we share Bernard's fear as he spends one very uncomfortable night-hours after his liberation-in the seemingly sympathetic home of the parents of a young SS officer.
Anton the Dove Fancier
By: Bernard Gotfryd
New York : Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990.
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 the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.
Briar Rose
By: Jane Yolen
New York : T. Doherty Associates, c1992.
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.
(I am crediting Heidi for this find!! I haven't yet decided on a theme and this seems to fit so well with the Holocaust theme.)
This collection of extraordinary true stories-including nine stories new to this expanded edition- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the High Holidays-only to see it given to the Christian janitor because it is not kosher; we meet Alexandra, a Polish resistance fighter who enlists the teenaged Bernard in the cause but who perishes while he survives; and we share Bernard's fear as he spends one very uncomfortable night-hours after his liberation-in the seemingly sympathetic home of the parents of a young SS officer.Anton the Dove Fancier
By: Bernard Gotfryd
New York : Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990.
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 the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.
Briar Rose
By: Jane Yolen
New York : T. Doherty Associates, c1992.
The boy in the Striped Pajamas : a fable
By: John Boyne
Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2007, c2006.
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.
Twenty and Ten
By: Claire Huchet Bishop, as told by Janet Joly Illustrated by: William Pène du Bois
New York : Puffin Books, 1978, c1952.
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.Twenty and Ten
By: Claire Huchet Bishop, as told by Janet Joly Illustrated by: William Pène du Bois
New York : Puffin Books, 1978, c1952.
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