Nazis

The Diary of Anne Frank

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Following the Nazi invasion of Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne and her family go into hiding in the confines of an attic. Anne's remarkable account of their lives, their growing fear of discovery, their deplorable living conditions and even the blooming of her first love, are intimately depicted in this extraordinary portrait of humanity. Nominated for eight 1959 Oscars and winning three, The Diary of Anne Frank remains one of cinema's most astounding and enduring treasures.

Director:

George Stevens

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

02:59

The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Copies: 7

Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers...

Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home.

Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich wanted him, and every other Jew in Europe, dead.

Author:

Leon Leyson

Lexile:

1000L

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion (2014)

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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and Yad Vashem. The Holcaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, has produced this study guide and DVD for high school students to better understand the ways in which the Holocaust affected women.

Grade Level:

High

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

The Book Thief

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Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an "extremely moving" (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (OSCAR® Winner Geoffrey Rush and OSCAR® Nominee Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him.

Director:

Brian Percival

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

02:11

The Boy Who Dared (Unabridged)

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When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason.

Author:

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

760L

Length:

04:12

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)

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

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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

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

09:56

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

Sarah's Key (Unabridged)

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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10 year-old girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Author:

Tatiana de Rosnay

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

HL610L

Length:

09:56

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