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I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust

10 best books like I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust (Inge Auerbacher): A Time of Angels, Darkness Under the Water, Flame of Resistance, Defining Dulcie, Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, Behind the Secret Window, Malka, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust, We Remember the Holocaust

A Time of Angels
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0786812095
As World War I rages in Europe, an influenza epidemic devastates Boston, forcing fourteen-year-old Hannah to leave home. Dangerously ill, she finds herself in Vermont, where a German man takes her in and nurses her back to health. Relying on her vision of an angel to help her find her way home, Hannah...
Darkness Under the Water
AuthorBeth Kanell
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
Flame of Resistance
AuthorTracy Groot
ISBN1414359470
2013 Christy Award winner!
Years of Nazi occupation have stolen much from Brigitte Durand. Family. Freedom. Hope for a future, especially for a woman with a past like hers. But that changes the day American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down over occupied France. Picked up by the Resistance,...
Defining Dulcie
AuthorPaul Acampora
ISBN0803730462
This is another mediocre YA novel dealing with the death of a parent. Dulcie's father died in a school janitorial accident and her mother's way to deal with this tragedy is to move across the country. Dulcie steals her late father's truck and goes back home, only to discover that there are worse fates than...
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
AuthorMeg Wiviott
ISBN0822599295
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
Behind the Secret Window
AuthorNelly S. Toll
ISBN0803713622
For thirteen months during World War II, Nelly Toll and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Just eight years old when she went into hiding in 1943, Nelly began keeping the diary that would inspire this powerful and moving memoir of her childhood....
Malka
AuthorMirjam Pressler
ISBN0142402699
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,...
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
AuthorMartin Gilbert
ISBN0805062602
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.

According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if...
Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust
AuthorElly Berkovits Gross
ISBN0439020085
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...
We Remember the Holocaust
AuthorDavid A. Adler
ISBN0805037152
We Remember the Holocaust chronicles the Holocaust in the voices of those who survived it. They tell us about Jewish life in Europe before the 1930s and about the violence of Hitler's rise to power. They describe the humiliations of Nazi rule, the struggle to keep families together, the fight for survival...
Destined to Live: A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust
AuthorRuth Gruener
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
AuthorAllan Zullo
ISBN0545099293
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
AuthorLola Rein Kaufman
ISBN0545061172
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
AuthorNechama Tec
ISBN0195035003
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...
Holocaust
AuthorAngela Gluck Wood
ISBN0756625351
This book, "The Holocaust" by Angela Gluck Wood, is about the cruel things that happened during World War II from 1936 to 1945. In this book, you will read real life experiences of survivors and records of the concentration camps. The hardships and forms of torture will surprise and depress you. May these...
Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany
AuthorEleanor Ramrath Garner
ISBN1561452963
This dramatic autobiography of Eleanor Ramrath Garner reveals the daily struggles of growing up as a young American caught in World War II Berlin.
During the Great Depression, when she is nine, Eleanor's family moves from her beloved America to Germany, where her father has been offered a good...
Holocaust Scream
AuthorRachel Rosenberg
Are you ready to meet the Polish Anne Frank who survived? Rachel Rosenberg is a Holocaust survivor of 4 Nazi concentration camps. Learn about her remarkable experience during the Holocaust and its long-term aftereffects. Some of Rachel's struggles within the Nazi SS final solution were similar to...
The Boy: A Holocaust Story
AuthorDan Porat
ISBN0809030713
A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized...
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
AuthorGeorge Lucius Salton
ISBN0299179745
In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered...
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust
AuthorSusan D. Bachrach
ISBN0316074845
A vital, award-winning introduction to the Holocaust, with photos and documents from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Drawing on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's large collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories, this book...
The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
AuthorErin Einhorn
ISBN1416558306
In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.To a young newspaper reporter, it...
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust
AuthorBarbara Rogasky
ISBN0823416771
El Holocausto es uno de los episodios más obscuros y viles de la humanidad, por lo mismo todos tenemos la obligación de saber de su existencia, al igual que de muchos otros sucesos terribles que se han venido dando en otros lugares y en otras fechas, como el asesinato de armenios a manos turcas, el Tibet,...
Treblinka
AuthorJean-François Steiner
ISBN0452011248
It's hard to know what this book is. It reads like a novel, with internal thoughts and great swaths of dialogue. However, it is presented as a history, though it lacks bibliography and notes. Perhaps it's in the mold of Keneally's Schindler's List, which told a true story but was labeled a novel.

It...
My Bridges of Hope
AuthorLivia Bitton-Jackson
ISBN0689848986
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...
Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
AuthorLeo Bretholz
ISBN0385497059
A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).

Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven...
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