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Hiding Edith by Kathy Kacer
Category: Children's Reference
In 1938, Edith and her family joined the many Jewish people forced to leave their homes to escape the Nazis. In a desperate bid for survival, Edith was entrusted to the care of a children's home in Moissac, France, where other Jewish children were hiding. All the people of the town promised to keep the ...Show more
Louder Than Words by Kathy Kacer
Category: Children's History | Series: The\Heroes Quartet Ser.
Heroic actions speak volumes in a powerful middle grade novel based on real WWII events. Life is not easy for Jewish people in the midst of the Second World War, and for twelve-year-old Dina and her sisters, it gets even harder when their father dies. Their mother must go back to work and despite ma ...Show more
The Diary of Laura's Twin by Kathy Kacer
Category: Fiction
My name is Sara Gittler and I am thirteen and a half years old. I have lived here behind barbed wire and high walls for more than a year. I dream of walking down a busy street and stopping in a cafe for ice cream and cake. I dream of buying a new dress, or maybe ten of them. Most of all, I dream of bein ...Show more
To Hope and Back by Kathy Kacer
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Lisa and Sol board the luxury ship St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the 937 passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years. As they set sail for Cuba the atmosphere on th ...Show more
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