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The author and publishers of a new book on Anne Frank's plight have turned one of the few at least partially upbeat stories of Jewish life and thought during the Holocaust into one of Jewish perfidy and treachery. The timing couldn’t be worse: antisemitism is flourishing once again, and Holocaust memory is diminishing.
Two years after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, we still need to address and dismantle anti-Black racism and white supremacy.
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.
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.
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)
English teacher, Erin Gruwell, changes the lives and perspectives of 150 “at-risk” students through helping them draw parallels in books such as Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, to their own lives.
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.
This book tells the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
A story of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
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.
Elie Wiesel's candid, horrific, autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich during Nazi Germany, cannot resist the opportunity to steal books, which she shares with her new friends including the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
A simple, mournful poem reminding readers that prior to the Nazi regime, the victims of the Holocaust went shopping, drank coffee, and wore hats just like everybody else.