Alamosa Public Library

Sensitively edited, the abridged edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. There are line drawings, lots of family photographs, and an afterword to explain why the diary ends so abruptly.

""Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers ... Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home. Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third...

"A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--

Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soliders in 1945.

"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...

The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.

After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family.

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Twelve true stories of young men and women, both Jews and non-Jews, who endured the horrors of the Holocaust.