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2009., Juvenile, Farrar, Straus Giroux Call No: 741.5 HEU Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While going through the contents in her grandmother Helena's attic, Jeroen is told a surprising story set in a time when Helena lived under German occupation in Europe and about her suspicions that her father, a police man, had something to do with her best friend being taken away.
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2020., Juvenile, HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC BIL Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A magnificent narrative inspired by a true survival story that asks universal questions about a young girl's coming of age story, her identity, her passions, and her first loves. At the Sèvres Children's Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion--photography. Although she hasn't heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much about Hitler's war. But as France buckles under the Nazi regime, danger closes in, and Rachel must change her name and go into hiding. As Catherine Colin, Rachel Cohen is faced with leaving the Sèvres Home--and the friends she made there--behind. But with her beautiful camera, Catherine possesses an object with the power to remember. For the rest of the war, Catherine bears witness to her own journey, and to the countless heroes whose courage and generosity saved the lives of many, including her own. Based on the author's mother's own experiences as a hidden child in France during World War II, Catherine's War is one of the most accessible historical graphic novels featuring a powerful girl since Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi--perfect for fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Anne Frank, or Helen Keller. Includes a map and photographs of the real Catherine and her wartime experiences, as well as an interview with author Julia Billet"--From the publisher's web site.
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2020., Juvenile, HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Graphic novels Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A magnificent narrative inspired by a true survival story that asks universal questions about a young girl's coming of age story, her identity, her passions, and her first loves. At the Sèvres Children's Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion--photography. Although she hasn't heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much about Hitler's war. But as France buckles under the Nazi regime, danger closes in, and Rachel must change her name and go into hiding. As Catherine Colin, Rachel Cohen is faced with leaving the Sèvres Home--and the friends she made there--behind. But with her beautiful camera, Catherine possesses an object with the power to remember. For the rest of the war, Catherine bears witness to her own journey, and to the countless heroes whose courage and generosity saved the lives of many, including her own. Based on the author's mother's own experiences as a hidden child in France during World War II, Catherine's War is one of the most accessible historical graphic novels featuring a powerful girl since Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi--perfect for fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Anne Frank, or Helen Keller. Includes a map and photographs of the real Catherine and her wartime experiences, as well as an interview with author Julia Billet"--From the publisher's web site.
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2020., Juvenile, HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: GN BIL Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A magnificent narrative inspired by a true survival story that asks universal questions about a young girl's coming of age story, her identity, her passions, and her first loves. At the Sèvres Children's Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion--photography. Although she hasn't heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much about Hitler's war. But as France buckles under the Nazi regime, danger closes in, and Rachel must change her name and go into hiding. As Catherine Colin, Rachel Cohen is faced with leaving the Sèvres Home--and the friends she made there--behind. But with her beautiful camera, Catherine possesses an object with the power to remember. For the rest of the war, Catherine bears witness to her own journey, and to the countless heroes whose courage and generosity saved the lives of many, including her own. Based on the author's mother's own experiences as a hidden child in France during World War II, Catherine's War is one of the most accessible historical graphic novels featuring a powerful girl since Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi--perfect for fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Anne Frank, or Helen Keller. Includes a map and photographs of the real Catherine and her wartime experiences, as well as an interview with author Julia Billet"--From the publisher's web site.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GN-HISTORY CAT Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "At the Sevres Children's Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion--photography. Although she hasn't heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much about Hitler's war. But as France buckles under the Nazi regime, danger closes in, and Rachel must change her name and go into hiding"--Provided by publisher.
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2009, c2008., Pre-adolescent, Walker Call No: 741.5 KNE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Rod Serling's The twilight zoneSummary Note: A former Nazi concentration camp guard returns to Dachau to relive his memories of the war.
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: GN HEU Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared.
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-- Nazi invasion, 19442021., Pre-adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic Call No: GN Tar Edition: First edition. Genre: Graphic novels Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: I survived (Graphic novel series) Volume: 3.Summary Note: In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
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-- Nazi invasion, 19442021., Pre-adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic Call No: 741.5 973 Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: I survived (Graphic novel series) Volume: 3.Summary Note: In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
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[2023]., Adolescent, Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GN 940.53 BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War. Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and families, as they escaped certain horror. Some children flee to England by train. Others are hidden from Nazis, sometimes in plain sight. Some are secreted away in attics and farmhouses. Still others make miraculous escapes, cresting over the snow-covered Pyrenees mountains to safety.
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2009., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: 741.5 HEU Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After recounting her experience as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, Esther embarks on a search to discover what happened to her parents before they died in a concentration camp.
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-- We will soon be home again[2020]., Dark Horse Books Call No: GN-HISTORY WEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Based on interviews with six Holocaust survivors, these first-person point of view stories relate living through the de-humanization and starvation in concentration camps and the industrial-scale mass murder in extermination camps"--Provided by publisher.
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[2011], c2003., DC Comics Call No: 741.5 KUB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Yossel, a Jew who only wants to be an artist, struggles to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, while recording the horror he sees around him in his sketch pad in the days leading up to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.