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In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 15), the Anti-Defamation League pays tribute to those who lost their lives during the Holocaust, the heroes who fought to save lives, and the rare few who managed to survive. Through the stories of a young boy and his dog in Poland, an orphanage director and his children in the Warsaw Ghetto and a group of Ukrainian families who survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cave, readers will learn about courage, dignity and what it means to be an ally in the face of hate and bigotry.
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My Dog Lala
 Roman R. Kent, Tziyon McWilliams (Illustrator)
Holocaust survivor, Roman Kent, tells the touching story of the loving relationship he had with his dog during the years of the Holocaust. After young Roman is forced to leave his dog behind in the country as the Nazis approach, he is stunned to find that Lala has located him on a train bound for Lodz. Later, when the family is forced into the Lodz ghetto, Lala again miraculously finds the family. From then, Lala spends her days in a factory caring for her puppies and her nights in the ghetto with the Kent family, until the sad day when the Nazis force all ghetto residents to hand over their pets. Lala teaches Kent that “love is stronger than hate, and no guns, barbed wire and no German guards could stop her from proving it.” The book features illustrations and photographs, and a teacher’s guide is included with an order of 30 or more books.
| ISBN: |
075600540X |
| Year: |
2006 |
| Publisher: |
Teacher’s Discovery |
| Grade Level: |
3 - 5 |
| Pages: |
46 |
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Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children
 David A. Adler, Bill Farnsworth (Illustrator)
Janusz Korczak—called “Old Doctor” by the orphans who loved him—was a doctor and promoter of children's rights, who ran a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland during the years of the Nazi’s rise to power. Korczak bravely sheltered his children from the brutality of the Warsaw Ghetto until the Nazis forced him to lead the orphans to the Treblinka death camp. When a Nazi soldier at Treblinka offered to spare Korczak from extermination, he refused and remained with his children until the end.
| ISBN: |
0823415481 |
| Year: |
2002 |
| Publisher: |
Holiday House |
| Grade Level: |
3 - 6 |
| Pages: |
32 |
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Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story
 Peter Lane Taylor, Christos Nicola
This account describes how three Ukrainian Jewish families survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cave near their village for 344 days. Sixty years later, in 2003, caver Christos Nicola explored the cave and found signs of human habitation. His Internet searches eventually connected him with some of the survivors, from whom he learned how 38 people, including toddlers and a 75-year-old grandmother, fled the Nazis and lived in four underground rooms, sealed off from the outside world. Color photos take readers to the site and show some of the people now, while black-and-white historical ones give an idea of the past.
| ISBN: |
1580132618 |
| Year: |
2007 |
| Publisher: |
Kar-Ben Publishing |
| Grade Level: |
4 & Up |
| Pages: |
64 |
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