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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Holocaust, including the history of Nazi anti-Semitism, Hitlers rise to power, the Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews, World War II, and includes details of the Nuremberg trials, and anti-Semitism today.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone--Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of anti-Semitism from biblical times through the twelve years of the Nazi era, 1933-1945, and describes Hitler's plans to annihilate European Jews by focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Also discusses the continuing effort to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.
6) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Austerlitz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left...
14) The cage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with photographs from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a collection of memories and reflections sheds light on the horrors of the Holocaust, from Hitler's rise to power and the creation of the Third Reich to the concentration camps and genocide, to liberation.
17) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
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Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
20) The storyteller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.