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Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High....
4) Trajectory
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Based on newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of World War II, this graphic nonfiction book presents the stories of six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition and angst."--
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"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
7) Azarel
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Publisher
Steerforth
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Gyuri is raised by his grandfather. When he dies, Gyuri has to return to his parents. Gyuri's father, a rabbi, expects the boy to toe the line of Judaism but Gyuri has no use for God and tragically leaves home to suffer an early breakdown.
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Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group...
10) Stolen summer
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Pete is an eight-year-old Catholic boy, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of Lord, and not that of the Devil. Pete decides to help someone get into heaven and decides to convert a Jew to Catholicism. Pete begins visiting a nearby synagogue, where he gets to know Rabbi Jacobson and makes friends with the Rabbi's son, Danny. When he learns that Danny is seriously ill, he decides Danny would be an excellent...
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Brandeis University Press, Published by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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"Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928, they were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. Many would go on to make great contributions to...
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Second story Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"For 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. They want to inspire participants to build a world free of oppression and intolerance, a world of freedom, democracy and justice...
18) A radiant girl
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Follows the story of a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris during the German occupation in 1942, as she finds friendship and love and aspires to become an actress.
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