From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Poland
- Author:Roy, Jennifer RozinesSummary:
- Author:Morris, HeatherSummary:
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov'an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom. It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances, all need not be lost. At a decimated cavalry stable under the droning German bombers, Alexander is offered a...
- Author:Dublin, AnneSummary:
It is 1937 Poland, and Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage. Leaving her young brother behind with strangers...
- Author:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSummary:
Fiction. Young Adult. THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both around the globe, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who...
- Author:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSummary:
The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived...
- Author:Rajchman, ChilSummary:
Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.
- Author:Sem-Sandberg, Steve, Death, SarahSummary:
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year...
- Author:Romero, R. M.Summary:
In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times....
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the...
- Author:BOYNE, JohnSummary:
Nine-year-old Bruno is bored and lonely since his family moved from Berlin. It is 1942 and his father, a Nazi officer, has a new posting in a place called 'Out-With'. It isn't long before Bruno finds a new friend, a boy...
- Author:Levi, PrimoSummary:
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
- Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:
Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
- Author:Krakauer, RenateSummary:
Only by Blood is a novel of search for roots, mother-daughter love and family reconciliation. A Polish woman receives puzzling news from her mother just before she dies. She wants to fulfill her mother's last wishes, but has...
- Author:Bluman, Barbara RuthSummary:
This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mother’s Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mother’s dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on. Bluman sets an urgent...
- Author:Burakowski, EllaSummary:
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, each doing their part to run the family grocery store and tobacco concession. The oldest daughter, Shoshana, had many friends, her sister Esther was meticulous as she worked at...
- Author:Opatowski, FelixSummary:
Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family. It is a skill that will serve him well as he tries to stay alive in Nazi...
- Author:Enfield, EdwardSummary:
Edward Enfield chronicles his adventures bike-riding through Europe for his voracious and curious fans. Here he takes a jaunt--for the first time--through Germany. With his characteristic wit and charm, Enfield describes the glorious...