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Degens to Fukuda

The Visit by T. Degens
Call Number: F DEGENS

ISBN: 9780670747122

Publication Date: 1982-10-11

Viking Press
150 Pages
Ages 12-15

At a family gathering in Berlin years after World War II, Kate relives some of the events described in the diary of a dead aunt who once was a member of the Hitler Youth.

Sears Subject Heading:

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction.
Aunts--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
Call Number: F DENENB

ISBN: 9780439095181

Publication Date: 2000-10-01

Scholastic
250 Pages
Ages 12+

For the first time, a Dear America story is being told in two parts -- complete in one volume! Julie Weiss's world is suddenly torn apart by a war that will forever change the face of humanity. Her life as a privileged Jewish girl quickly becomes one of humiliation and terror. In part two, Julie has left Nazi Austria for New York, where she begins a new life with her extended family who she has never met.

Sears Subject Headings

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Fiction.
Jews--Austria--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Austria--History--1939-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

Children of Bach by Eilis Dillon
Call Number: F DILLON

ISBN: 9780684194400

Publication Date: 1992-11-01

Charles Scribner's Sons Maxwell Macmillan International
164 Pages
Ages 10-12

The Second World War is drawing towards its end. The Nazis are occupying Hungary. When Peter, Suzy and little Pali find that their parents have been rounded up with other Jews and sent away, they embark on a perilous plan to escape into Italy. Not knowing whom to trust, they risk danger and betrayal, until their frightening journey as refugees comes to an end in an Italian mountain village, where it is music that gains them acceptance among the villagers and helps them to embrace a new life.

Dillon's Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction
Jews--Hungary--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Hungary--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Hungary--History--1918-1945--Fiction.
Fiction.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: F DOERR

ISBN: 9781476746593

Publication Date: 2030-12-31

Scribner
531 Pages
Ages 14+

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. They carry with them perhaps the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a German mining town, an orphan named Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. He becomes expert at fixing these new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. Increasingly aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

Sears Subject Headings:

Blind--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth--France--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Youth-Germany--Fiction.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Historical.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Saint-Malo (France)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Call Number: F DOGAR

ISBN: 9780547501956

Publication Date: 2010-10-04

Houghton Mifflin
ix, 341 Pages
Ages 12-15

Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne's diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex's occupants.

Sears Subject Headings:

Frank, Anne,--1929-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Fiction.
Biographies.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: PS3569.M5377 G57 2016

ISBN: 9781476716732

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc.
438 Pages
Ages 11+

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War (1939-1945)
1939-1945
Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Women divers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Young Women.
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
Fiction.

The Bridge Builder's Story: A Novel by Howard Fast
Call Number: F FAST

ISBN: 9781563246913

Publication Date: 1995-12-31

M.E. Sharpe
210 Pages
Ages X-X

In 1939 in Berlin, an American tourist and his wife are arrested as spies. The wife is tortured to death, but the husband escapes. The novel follows him as he attempts to live down that tragedy, first as an officer in the U.S. Army, later in trying to find someone to love. By the author of Seven Days in June.

Discussion Questions

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Love Stories.
War Stories.

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Call Number: DS135.N6 F73313

ISBN: 9781556750007

Publication Date: 1988-01-01

Doubleday
308 Pages
Ages 12+

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.

Sears Subject Headings

Frank, Anne--1929-1945--Diaries.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Personal narratives.
Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Ethnic relations.

Nightfather by Carl Friedman; Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator); Erica Pomerans (Translator)
Call Number: F FRIEDM

ISBN: 9780892551934

Publication Date: 1994-04-01

Persea Books
133 Pages
Ages X-X

A World War II concentration camp survivor's story, recounted by his eight-year-old daughter. At first the father tries to present the experience in terms suitable for children, then finding that he is getting nowhere he abandons euphemisms and becomes brutally frank. The novel's interest is in the girl's reaction, as well as that of two other children to such subjects as gassings, beatings and murder.

Persea Books Website

Sears Subject Headings:

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Jews--Netherlands--Fiction.
Netherlands--Fiction.

The Daughter of Auschwitz: the Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Story by Tova Friedman
Call Number: B Friedman Friedman

ISBN: 9780063381544

Publication Date: 2025-04-08

Quill Tree Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
193 Pages
Ages 12+

In this powerful middle grade adaptation of the bestselling adult memoir of the same name, New York Times bestselling author Tova Friedman recounts her experiences as one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. At the tender age of five years old, Tola Grossman was sent to a Nazi labor camp. As World War II was breaking out around them, the only thing Tola and her parents were left with was the instinct to survive at all costs. Tola's life became a series of miraculous close calls, from being saved from a gas chamber to successfully hiding from the Nazis as they were rounding people up. In this evocative account of one young girl's survival, Tova Friedman chronicles the atrocities she witnessed while at Auschwitz and, ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds.

Sears Subject Headings:

Friedman, Tova,--1938---Juvenile literature.
Friedman, Tova,--1938-.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Birkenau (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors--Poland--Gdynia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Gdynia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camps--Poland--Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camps--Germany--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jewish--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust survivors.
Jews--Poland--Gdynia--Biography.
Nazi concentration camps--Poland.
Nazi concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
World War, 1939-1945.
Holocaust survivors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Biography--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Holocaust, 1933-1945--Juvenile literature.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
Call Number: F FAKUDA

ISBN: 9781250192387

Publication Date: 2020-01-07

Tor Teen
382 Pages
Ages 13-18

For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."--Andrew Fukuda

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature. From the desolation of an internment camp on the plains of Manzanar to the horrors of Auschwitz and the devastation of European battlefields, the only thing they can hold onto are the memories of their letters. But nothing can dispel the light between them.

Macmillan Publishers Website

Sears Subject Headings:

United States--Army--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Fiction.
Pen pals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.
Fiction.