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1) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A woman describes her mother's heroic survival during the Holocaust, a woman who, as a teenager, was a close friend of Anne Frank's family and who ultimately fled to Belgium to work with the Resistance after her parents were arrested in 1943.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
5) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929, Anne Frank was only thirteen years old when her family went into hiding to escape persecution during the Holocaust. Anne kept a diary detailing their years spent living in a concealed room behind a bookcase prior to their arrest a diary so widely published following her death that it is one of the period's most influential books.- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The ... story of the author's aunt--a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive World War II by teaching dance to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author's own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion...
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