Behind the Secret Window
10 best books like Behind the Secret Window (Nelly S. Toll): Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany, Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, The Worst Witch at School, I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust, Malka, The Blue Door, Blasphemy: the true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, The Winter People, Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany
| Author | Peter Wyden |
| ISBN | 0385471793 |
The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, and who later became notorious as a "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence,...
| Author | Brigid O'Donoghue |
| ISBN | 1560778520 |
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.
Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
| Author | Jill Murphy |
| ISBN | 0763634352 |
I loved my book so much.It was so funny.It was funny because of the things Mildred did.Like how she turned Ethel into a pig.It was so funny.I couldn't wait until I got to the next book.I loved it.I really enjoyed Mildred as a person too.Pg.22 and 23.
Someone who would like this book is someone who likes...
| Author | Inge Auerbacher |
| ISBN | 0140364013 |
"I am a star : child of the Holocaust" was written by Inge Auerbacher. The purpose they had for this book was to inform you. It was written not only to tell you what the Holocaust was about but also to inform you on just one persons story during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very serious and horrible time....
| Author | Mirjam Pressler |
| ISBN | 0142402699 |
When the roundups start, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters-seven- year-old Malka and sixteen-year-old Minna-across the Hungarian border to safety, a place where they hope Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have imagined, with bleeding feet, bad weather,...
A unique and heartbreaking memoir of a child's imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II.
'1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing...'
On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called...
Blasphemy: the true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, drinks...
| Author | Frances Temple |
| ISBN | 0064471365 |
Every Life
Makes a Story
Djo has a story: Once he was one of "Titid's boys," a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing.
Jeremie has a story:...
"Full of history, danger, courage and raw survival, this compelling novel by acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac is certain to have readers on the edge of their seat, start to finish." —The Dallas Morning News
Saxso is fourteen when the British attack his village. It’s 1759, and war is raging...
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
| Author | Ruth Elias |
| ISBN | 0471350613 |
Now available for the first time in English, this is the memoir of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant.
Ruth Elias, a young Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, survived three years in the Nazi camps of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. In this haunting testimony,...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0142405922 |
Mystery is in Herculeah Jones’s blood. How could it not be, with a father on the police force and a mother who’s a private eye? So when Herculeah notices a man hanging around the "Dead Oaks" mansion, she can’t resist doing some investigating of her own. Legend has it the old estate was the site of a...
Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust
| Author | Elly Berkovits Gross |
| ISBN | 0439020085 |
When Elly was just 15 years old, she, her mother and brother were deported by cattle car to the Auschwitz II / Birkenau concentration camp. On the day they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier directed Elly to the right; her mother and brother were sent to the left. She never saw her family alive again. Elly later...
Destined to Live: A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust
What would you do if your whole life was shattered, and you were forced into hiding? This gripping, poignant memoir about coming of age during The Holocaust explores that question.
Pretty, carefree Aurelia Gamser (known today as Ruth Gruener) had an idyllic life in 1930s Poland -- until violent...
Escape: Children of the Holocaust
| Author | Allan Zullo |
| ISBN | 0545099293 |
This book features seven amazing true stories of brave boys and girls who escaped from the clutches of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates and places, these stories are factual versions...
The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust
| Author | Lola Rein Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0545061172 |
When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding. At first, Lola secretly lives in the home of a Ukrainian woman. But when someone threatens to expose her to the Nazis, Lola must flee again, this time hiding with another family in a dirt hole beneath a barn.
Struggling...
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
| Author | Nechama Tec |
| ISBN | 0195035003 |
Every Holocaust survival story is unique. Nechama Tec recounts her unique experience in Nazi-occupied Poland with precision and an understandable detachment. She includes every tiny detail as she tells of fleeing her home and hiding with Christians to avoid the Nazis.
She and her sister...
| Author | Livia Bitton-Jackson |
| ISBN | 0689848986 |
After liberation from Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli, her brother, and their mother attempt to rebuild their lives in Czechoslovakia. But it doesn't take long for Elli to realize that even though the war is over, anti-Semitism is not, so she and her family decide to escape to America along with...
And the Violins Stopped Playing
| Author | Alexander Ramati |
| ISBN | 0340366877 |
It took me ages to track down this book which is a shame as it is well worth reading. The Roma are often referred to as the forgotten victims of the Holocaust ( or porajmos as the Roma refer to it)
And the violins stopped playing by Alexander Ramati is about a Polish Gypsy family who live a rather comfortable...
| Author | Aharon Appelfeld |
| ISBN | 0805211268 |
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and...
Mystery of the Dark Tower
| Author | Evelyn Coleman |
| ISBN | 1584850841 |
There must be quite a few parents who subscribe to the belief that one shouldn't tell children "grown up" problems, even when those problems directly affect their lives. I've never personally seen any parents like this, but they must exist, considering what a constant plot point it is in lower grade...
This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
| Author | Piera Sonnino |
| ISBN | 1403975086 |
Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered one year ago in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written...
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
| Author | Yitzhak Arad |
| ISBN | 0253213053 |
..". Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."--New York Times Book Review
..". some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read.... the authentic, exhaustive,...
| Author | Rose Zar |
| ISBN | 0827603827 |
The author might best be described as spunky -- going from a sheltered, conservative Jewish childhood to the nitty-gritty business of survival on false papers, looking blackmailers and Nazis and potential rapists in the eye, refusing to be intimidated and ready to defend herself with shouting or...
Bitter Freedom: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor
| Author | Jafa Wallach |
| ISBN | 0595405487 |
As a documentary filmmaker, I've collaborated on a number of Holocaust-related works, and have listened in shock and awe to nearly one hundred survivors as they recounted-often, for the first time-their individual and familial stories of tragedy and transcendence. Jafa Wallet's "Bitter Freedom,"...
We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
| Author | Gideon Greif |
| ISBN | 0300106513 |
The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be “members of staff” of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the...
