It’s Hanukkah, and Max and Rachel are excited to light the menorah in their family’s new apartment. But, unfortunately, their Hanukkah box is missing. (Ages 3-8)
Would you defend the indefensible? That's what high school seniors Logan March and Cade Crawford are asked to do when a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution--the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people.
In pre-World War II Vienna, Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. But when enemy forces threatened the city—particularly the Jewish people that lived there—Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision.
When it's time for the symbolic Passover custom of opening the family's front door for the prophet Elijah, both the boy and the cat are in for a remarkable surprise.
Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place
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Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II.
This modern Jewish folktale will resonate with those who love crafts, anyone who’s encountered someone with physical differences—and with everyone who has ever lost a mitten in the depths of winter.
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere.
Josef, Isabel and Mahmoud all go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. Although they are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections tie their stories together in the end. (Ages 9-12)
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
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Holocaust survivor Krystyna Chiger details her early years, largely spent hiding from Nazi and Ukrainian persecution, including the fourteen months she spent with her family in underground sewers.
Measure of A Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
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Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story.
Reuven, a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father and Danny, the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe, form an unlikely and deep friendship.
Asher Lev grows up in a Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn but his gift as an artist threatens to estrange him from this traditional world and the parents he adores.