Spunky Memoirs of a 1940s Kid

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The idea of a king who stands up to Hitler feels like a fairy tale but is, in fact, true. This is the flip side of The Diary of Anne Frank. Narrowly escaping surprise German raid, they miraculously survive thanks to a hidden room in the attic. Imagine if Anne Frank has been so fortunate. The farmer and his wife are the unsung heroes of this true story. I always think about the unknown citizens who went out of their way to rat out a Jew.

What happened to him? Does he feel good about himself for doing this? The flip side to the unsung hero; the unknown villain. I remember this book from my childhood and the story has never left me.

In the book, Esther has one day to pack for the trip to an unknown destination before the Nazis remove her family from their mansion and move in. At the last moment, she decides to stuff in her winter coat. Thank goodness she does. Though her father is forced to work in a gypsum mine, the family prevails during their time in Siberia, even befriending some Russians. I wonder if the Nazis who took over her house knew that relocation to Siberia was the kindest option. How did her family end up here instead of a death camp? The use of flashback for year-old Hannah from modern times into the horrors of a concentration camp makes this story less terrifying since you know that our young character will somehow survive.

The details of life in a death camp are frighteningly realistic though. This boy wants to be a Nazi, with shiny jackboots, so willing is he to fit in. And yet, he ends up in a concentration camp where survival is the ultimate challenge with a price that is heartbreaking. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan. A must read that speaks to all tweens and teens about the universality of annoying parents, boy questions, and discovering yourself despite her tragic circumstances of hiding out during occupied WWII Amsterdam.

Her death is a tragedy that defines the horror of the Holocaust. In particular, that it was narrated by Death. I was impressed too. I liked that it was a story of an ordinary German girl who befriends and hides a Jewish man before he is forced to march to Dachau. I always wondered about the German citizens and how they dealt with the Nazis if they actually disagreed with their politics. This YA book won a pile of well-deserved awards. Since Colette is frail and struggles with dementia, Lily stays with her when the facility is evacuated to an armory in Brooklyn.

In flashbacks about Colette, we learn about her childhood in Brume, France under the Nazi occupation in the s. It was during this time that Colette met Marguerite, whose father was very active in the Resistance. The two ended up working together. In alternating chapters, we find out more about the Superstorm and the progress in getting the senior residents settled, and about the course of the war as it affected Colette and her family.

Lily decides that it is imperative that she go visit Marguerite, and sets off on an adventure to meet her. Chaya, however, decides to go down fighting and joins a Resistance group called Akiva. This group is comprised of former leaders and children in a scouting group. At first, she is a courier, taking food and sometimes weapons into the ghetto.

It is not so easy for Esther, a timid girl who joins the group. Eventually, realizing the that situation in Poland is getting worse and worse, the group starts to plan sabotage activities, including bombing a cafe.

After that, Akiva sustains may casualties, and Chaya fears she is the only one left. She starts out on her own and eventually runs into Esther, who claims she is on a mission from a former Akiva leader to deliver items to the Lodz ghetto. Things are exceedingly grim when they get there, but the girls decide to travel on to Warsaw. Along the way, they find some of their former cohorts who are trying to get more Resistance members to help in whatever way they can.

Chaya and Esther eventually end up taking part in the particularly brutal fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Chaya becomes badly injured, but still tries her best to do the right thing in the face of evil. Excellent review by Ms. From the tense beginning, where Luka is trying to escape in the death cart, to the end, where he is able to find some peace, this is a riveting read. Having it set in Ukraine, with the resistance, adds even more interest to a topic that some would consider being overdone.

As much as I think sometimes that there are too many books about World War II, I know that there are lots of readers who enjoy these books and that there is always room for fresh titles on new topics. It also helps that The War Below covers many facets of the Jewish experience— flashbacks to daily life in Kyiv, time in the camps, and time hiding out in the wilderness. I wish that more books followed characters after liberation when times were especially tense and unsettled.

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When We Were Shadows: Walter is five years old when his parents decide to flee their home in Germany and start a new life in the Netherlands. But as the war progresses, his family is forced to move again and again, from city to countryside, to eventually, the Hidden Village deep in the Dutch woods.

Walter and his parents are separated from his seriously ill sister, who is hidden in a hospital, and his grandmother, who is hidden in other safe houses. He writes letters on napkins, scraps of paper, and book pages, describing his life, his fears, and his hopes. This true story shines a light on a little-known part of WWII history and the heroes of the Dutch resistance—particularly those involved in the Hidden Village—without whose protection, Walter, his family, and hundreds of others would not have survived.

It is a story about the power of a family determined to stay together. It is a story about the compassion and kindness of ordinary individuals who put their lives in danger because they know it is the right thing to do. Holocaust picture books are always a difficult subject for young readers — how much graphic description to include. And although Toby and Rachel, like everyone in a Nazi concentration camp, faced beatings, brutality, starvation, and death every day, Wolfe and her cousin Bat Zvi have managed to find a balance between the mistreatment and the love and resilience that kept these two sisters fighting for their lives.

Yingling Reads has a review:. Gerta lives with her father, a viola player, and her stepmother, who is a famous singer. Eventually, her father stops going to work, and he and Gerta are sent to a concentration camp. Her real love is singing, but the horrors of life in the camps make it difficult for her to sing. Once the camps are liberated, she meets Lev, a young man who wants to get back to newspaper work, and Micah, who wants to go to Israel to start over.

As Gerta starts the slow process of recovering physically and mentally from her travails, she must decide the direction her life will take. While she has a crush on Micah, she eventually realizes that he is not good for her, and marries Lev. The two head to Israel and build a life for themselves. The illustrations are very lovely, the writing poetic, and the horrors of the Holocaust fully explained without being too much for a middle school reader to process. A good addition to middle and high school collections. Imani is adopted by a Jewish family. Imani keeps the diary a secret for a while, only sharing it with her best friend, Madeline.

She continues to write to her sister Belle about the tall New York skyscrapers, shopping in supermarkets, eating Chinese food, modeling fur coats, and playing Chinese checkers, until news about her family stops. She fears the worst and puts down her pen. She uncovers some important information about the war and Luxembourg.

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To Look a Nazi in the Eye: Kathy Kacer sensitively weaves a format for this compelling and dramatic nonfiction narrative that reads like a story. Her pacing will keep readers glued to the story. There are interesting dynamics at play throughout the story. Jordana is loyal to the survivors she has journeyed with to Germany.

Their painful stories are etched in her heart and mind. But she has trouble seeing Groening as a monster. Yet she is disturbed by the details of his actions. Ten thousand children escaped the Nazis traveling alone without their parents on the Kinderstransport from Germany to the United Kingdom. Stories of individual children are highlighted in this early chapter book about young refugees and their experience of losing their homes and families during WWII; an experience that is more relevant than ever today with modern-day child refugees.

Can cats outsmart the Gestapo? In Warsaw during WWII, the Gestapo have forced all Jewish men, women, and children into a ghetto where they are being ravished through disease and starvation. Those who can escape and pass for Aryan must use their ingenuity to find a way to bring food to their friends. The cats of Krasinski Square can help outfox the Gestapo. In this story of courage amid horrific inhumanity, Hesse celebrates the Jewish Resistance. This is such a well written, poignant story of resistance and survival under such unimaginable circumstances.

To her credit, Renaud has managed to describe the horrors of living in a concentration camp under the Nazis including enough reality without getting overly graphic, given the age of her target audience. If you want to learn more about the Danish king who saved his people from the death camps, this picture book is the perfect gentle place to start. At a time when most people were afraid to speak out against the injustices and cruelties they were witnessing on a daily basis, Kurt is an inspiring character, finding his voice and means to protest.

This is indeed a picture book for older readers that should resonate with strongly with them even today. This is a gentler Holocaust book for more sensitive students— there are some scary moments, but not as much of the sheer brutality found in other books. Another review from Ms. Yanek manages to survive work details in salt mines and rock quarries, only to wind up at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he survives the infamous showers and the deadly Death March from the camp at the end of the war.

The skill of the artist is such that the device of dehumanizing the characters does not create emotional distance. With the growing atrocities, they were too frightened to stand up and stop the madness.

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And even though the story jumps back and forth between past and present, it is not confusing in the least. Both have compelling stories that are made all the more interesting because they are such polar opposites. When the plot to assassinate Hitler finally became a reality, Bonfoeffer faced his greatest struggle between behaving morally as his religion ordained or acting against those moral principles by taking a life.

Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of memory so that the children and grandchildren of survivors will never forget the atrocities that happened during the Holocaust.

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I have a few others, two nonfiction books: Definitely for older teen readers. This book would be a great companion book for Holocaust studies. MaryAnne from Mama Smiles: I highly recommend it. When year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. Edek, enraged, shoots one of the Nazi Storm Troopers. Now Edek and his two sisters must escape — and fast! Leaving their bombed house, they flee across rooftops, the Secret Police already on their trail.

A harrowing story of three young fugitives and their Nazi pursuers. These are the books that are not on this list so far:. In one the photographs show only happy times — from after World War II when she and her daughters had come to America. But today Oma will share it all. Today Rachel will hear about what her grandmother, her mother, and her aunts endured.

Fireflies in the Dark: Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Ela Stein was eleven years old in February when she was sent to the Terezin concentration camp with other Czech Jews. By the time she was liberated in , she was fifteen. Somehow during those horrendous three-and-a-half years of sickness, terror, separation from loved ones, and loss, Ela managed to grow up.

Although conditions were wretched, Ela forged lifelong friendships with other girls from Room 28 of her barracks. Yet amidst all of this, the feared transports to death camps and death itself were a part of daily life. I'd rather forget them and move on to the next good read. Spunky is a good read. It is also quick and entertaining. It is the story of what we would call in my family an ornery kid growing up in World War II in the coal country town of New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spunky is the author's nickname from back in the day For the cautious parents of the twenty-first century, this will be a hair raising read.

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