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The Forgers
The Forgers
by Roger Moorhouse

A group of Polish diplomats developed a scheme of forging passports and identification papers, which were smuggled into German occupied countries, to aid the escape of Jews from Europe.

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Return to the Reich:
Return to the Reich:
by Eric Lichtblau

Freddy Mayer, a German-born Jew returned to Germany as a spy, where he conducted dangerous secret missions to destroy the Nazi regime. This true story reads like a thriller.

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In the Garden of the Righteous
In the Garden of the Righteous
by Richard Hurowitz.

This collection profi les ten brave individuals who risked their personal safety to provide hiding places for Jews, and helped to secretly transport persecuted individuals to safe countries during the Holocaust.

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Two Roads Home : Hitler, Stalin, and the miraculous survival of my family
Two Roads Home : Hitler, Stalin, and the miraculous survival of my family
by Daniel Finkelstein

Finkelstein retells the harrowing story of how relatives on both sides of his family survived the Holocaust.

Time’s Echo
Time’s Echo
by Jeremy Eichler

Eichler describes how legendary composers: Benjamin Britten, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich and Richard Strauss, lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and later expressed their experiences through deeply emotional music.

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Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust
Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust
by Hédi Fried; translated by Alice E. Olsson

As a Holocaust survivor, Fried tells her story through questions she was most often asked as an educator and presenter and turned them into a book to help youth understand this time in history. Ages 9-11

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We are on Our Own: a Memoir
We are on Our Own: a Memoir
by Miriam Katin.

The harrowing story of how Katin and her mother escaped from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. Ages 15-18.

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Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust
Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust
by Sarah Silberstein Swartz

Learn the story of nine women who played important roles during World War II. Ages 12-18

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We Survived the Holocaust: the Bluma & Felix Goldberg Story
We Survived the Holocaust: the Bluma & Felix Goldberg Story
by Story by Frank W. Baker

A cautionary tale telling the story of two Polish Jews who survived concentration camps and then escaped to the United States to eventually raise a family. Ages 12-16.

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We'll Soon Be Home Again
We'll Soon Be Home Again
by story by Jessica Bab Bonde; art by Peter Bergting; translation by Jessica Bab Bonde & Sunshine Barbito

This graphic novel memoir is based on real-life interviews of six Holocaust survivors and what they endured, along with their stories of how they survived. Ages 15-18

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