World War II

World at War (2005)

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Turning to diplomacy and military operations, the reasons for Allied success are assessed. The holocaust, use of atomic bombs, and how the war transformed the world and the place of the United States in it are examined.

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00:30

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Abridged Nonfiction)

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More than 50 years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995.

Author:

Anne Frank, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1080L

Length:

05:58

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Abridged Nonfiction)

All but My Life (Unabridged)

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A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. All But My Life stands as the ultimate lesson in humanity, hope, and friendship.

Author:

Gerda Weissmann Klein

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

09:37

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Unabridged)

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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some information about the audiobook, but in this case we think that would spoil the listening. We think it's important that you start to listen without knowing what it is about.

Author:

John Boyne

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1080L

Length:

09:54

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Unabridged)

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Unabridged)

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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth, whose organized propaganda marches throughout Germany helped the Nazi Party grow in strength. By 1939, it is estimated that more than seven million boys and girls belonged to the Hitler Youth.

Author:

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1050L

Length:

04:27

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Unabridged)

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Copies: 5

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.

Author:

Jerry Spinelli

Lexile:

510L

Lessons of the Holocaust (#104)

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Examines the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and demonstrates that the ideas and opinions of that time are still prevalent in our society today.

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Middle

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00:14

Return to Auschwitz (#108)

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Auschwitz was the most notorious Nazi death camp of World War II. After returning there for the first time in more than 50 years, several Holocaust survivors tell the stories of their forced incarceration and the horrors they endured.

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00:14

Lessons of the Holocaust (#104)

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Footprints: Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts (2014)

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This educational video was created for the Footprints of Hope project, a new initiative from the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme designed to involve students aged 13 years and older in the study of the Holocaust. This film is accompanied by a lesson plan and PowerPoint presentation titled “Ordinary Things? Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts”.

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Middle

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00:08