{"id":17974,"date":"2020-05-12T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:33:37","slug":"the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Introducing the Holocaust to children is tough. There\u2019s no way around the fact that it\u2019s a horrifying story \u2013 but even in the darkest and most dreadful of times, there\u2019s still hope and bravery and heroes. Difficult as this topic may be, it should be taught. We should never forget.<\/p>\n<p>By Ruth Franklin, see the <em>New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/23\/how-should-childrens-books-deal-with-the-holocaust\">How Should Children\u2019s Books Deal With the Holocaust?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <em>Psychology Today<\/em>, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/going-beyond-intelligence\/201811\/how-should-you-talk-your-child-about-the-holocaust\">How Should You Talk to Your Child About the Holocaust?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/\">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a> has many educational resources for students, including historical photos, maps,&nbsp; and clips of testimony from survivors, and general information on the history of the Holocaust, genocide, and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>From Khan Academy, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/humanities\/world-history\/euro-hist\/human-rights\/v\/the-holocaust\">The Holocaust<\/a>, an overview of the Holocaust, including the events that led up to it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e98719971ff\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e98719971ff\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/the-holocaust\/#Anne_Frank\" >Anne Frank<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/the-holocaust\/2\/#Books_for_Younger_Readers\" >Books for Younger Readers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/the-holocaust\/3\/#Books_for_Middle-Grade_and_Older_Readers\" >Books for Middle-Grade and Older Readers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/the-holocaust\/4\/#Movies\" >Movies<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Anne_Frank\"><\/span>Anne Frank<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps one of the most famous names to come out of the Holocaust is that of teenaged Anne Frank, whose diary &#8211; written between 1942 and 1944 while she and her family were in hiding above a factory in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands &#8211; is now one of the best-known and most powerful books in the world. Titled <em>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>, it commonly appears on recommended high-school reading lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank-1536x1296.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/picture-book-of-anne-frank.jpg 1659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>David A. Adler\u2019s <em>A Picture Book of Anne Frank<\/em> (Holiday House, 1993) is a simple story of Anne\u2019s life for ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tree-in-the-courtyard-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tree-in-the-courtyard-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tree-in-the-courtyard.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Jeff Gottesfeld, <em>The Tree in the Courtyard<\/em> (Knopf, 2016), a beautifully illustrated picture book, is the story of Anne Frank as told by the horse chestnut tree in the courtyard outside her window. For ages 5-8.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary-1263x1536.jpg 1263w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/miep-and-the-most-famous-diary.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Meeg Pincus, <em>Miep and the Most Famous Diary<\/em> (Sleeping Bear Press, 2019) is the picture-book story of Miep Gies, who sheltered the Frank family in their years in hiding and who ultimately rescued Anne\u2019s diary. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>There are many available editions of Anne Frank\u2019s diary, <em>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>, first published eight years after her death from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and now one of the world\u2019s most famous books. Learn more about the diary from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annefrank.org\/en\/anne-frank\/diary\/\">Anne Frank House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-graphic-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-graphic-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-graphic.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><em>Anne Frank\u2019s Diary<\/em> (Pantheon, 2018) is a graphic adaptation of the book, including extensive quotations from the original.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/all-about-anne-7-languages-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/all-about-anne-7-languages-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/all-about-anne-7-languages-768x983.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/all-about-anne-7-languages.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>From the Anne Frank House, <em>All About Anne<\/em> (Second Story, 2018) is an illustrated account of Anne\u2019s life, based on questions frequently asked by young visitors to the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. For ages 11-14.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/may\/25\/anne-frank-full-story-bart-van-es\">Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary<\/a> from <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-movie-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-movie-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/diary-of-anne-frank-movie.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052738\">The Diary of Anne Frank<\/a> (1959) is a movie version of the story of the Frank and Van Daan families, hiding from 1942 to 1944 in the Secret Annexe above a factory in Amsterdam. Thirteen-year-old Anne kept a diary of their life there, which her father discovered when he returned after the war. Several subsequent versions of Anne\u2019s story have been made, including a TV miniseries (2009). Generally appropriate for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4>Books for Younger Readers<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 2575px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whispering-town-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whispering-town-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whispering-town.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>In Jennifer Elvgren\u2019s picture book <em>The Whispering Town<\/em> (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2014), set in 1943 in German-occupied Denmark, Anett\u2019s family is hiding a Jewish mother and son until they can be taken on board a fishing boat to Sweden. The entire town joins in a plan of Anett\u2019s to get the pair safely to the harbor. For ages 5-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 288px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 288px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/i-will-come-back-for-you-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/i-will-come-back-for-you-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/i-will-come-back-for-you.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 288px;\">\n<p>In Marisabina Russo\u2019s <em>I Will Come Back for You<\/em> (Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2011), a Jewish grandmother tells her young granddaughter the story of her childhood in Italy, when she and her family hid from the Germans on a little farm in the mountains. Nonna, the little girl\u2019s grandmother, uses charms on her charm bracelet as memory cues. Based on a true family story. For ages 5-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yellow-star-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yellow-star-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yellow-star.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>Carmen Agra Deedy\u2019s <em>The Yellow Star<\/em> (Peachtree Publishing, 2020) is the story of Danish King Christian X who \u2013 when the Nazis took over Denmark and attempted to force all Jews to wear a yellow star \u2013 donned a yellow star himself and urged all his countrymen to do the same. There\u2019s reason to believe that this story is more legend than history \u2013 but there\u2019s a kernel of truth here and it\u2019s an inspiring tale for ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 109px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 109px;\">\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/a-star-is-borne\/\">The King of Denmark Wore a Yellow Star<\/a> for a fact-check version of the story.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 470px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 470px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-butterfly-polacco-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-butterfly-polacco-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-butterfly-polacco.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 470px;\">\n<p>Patricia Polacco\u2019s <em>The Butterfly<\/em> (Puffin, 2009), set in France during the Nazi occupation, is the story of young Monique who wakes up one night to discover a strange little girl at the foot of her bed. Her name is Sevrine and she is Jewish; Monique\u2019s mother is hiding her family from the Nazis in a hidden basement room. When a neighbor sees Monique and Sevrine together, Sevrine\u2019s family is forced to flee. The butterfly serves as a metaphor for Nazi brutality: a German soldier, seeing Monique admiring one, snatches it up and crushes it in his fist. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/terrible-things.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"254\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>Eve Bunting\u2019s picture book <em>Terrible Things<\/em> (Jewish Publication Society, 1989) is a Holocaust allegory. The Terrible Things have arrived in a woodland clearing and are capturing all the animals with feathers. Little Rabbit protests \u2013 \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with feathers?\u201d \u2013 but is silenced by the others. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmossislit.com\/uploads\/1\/1\/5\/5\/115557995\/terrible_things_text.pdf\">here<\/a> to read the story online, with a list of helpful discussion questions.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden-1195x1536.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hidden.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>By Loic Dauvillier, in the graphic novel <em>Hidden<\/em> (First Second, 2014) Dounia, now a grandmother, tells her granddaughter about her experiences as a young girl in Nazi-occupied Paris in which she was hidden by neighbors and friends after her parents were sent to a concentration camp. For ages 6-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 444px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 444px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-jar-of-secrets-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-jar-of-secrets-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-jar-of-secrets-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-jar-of-secrets.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 444px;\">\n<p>By Marcia Vaughan, <em>Irena\u2019s Jar of Secrets<\/em> (Lee &amp; Low, 2015) is the picture-book story of Irena Sendler who, during the German occupation of Poland, smuggled children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, finding them safe homes in orphanages and convents or with sympathetic families. She kept secret lists of the children\u2019s identities in buried jars, intended to help them find their families again after the war. For ages 6-11.<\/p>\n<p>Also see Jennifer Rozines Roy\u2019s <em>Jars of Hope<\/em> (Capstone, 2016), subtitled \u201cHow One Woman Helped Save 2500 Children During the Holocaust.\u201d For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benno_and_the_night_of_the_broken_glass-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benno_and_the_night_of_the_broken_glass-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benno_and_the_night_of_the_broken_glass.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Meg Wiviott\u2019s <em>Benno and the Night of Broken Glass<\/em> (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2010) is the story of Kristallnacht as seen through the eyes of Benno, an orange cat. The book begins with a description of ordinary life in his neighborhood \u2013 and then an account of the awful night when the Brownshirts smashed windows and set fires to Jewish homes, after which nothing was the same again. For ages 7-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/otto-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/otto-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/otto.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>The star of Tomi Ungerer\u2019s <em>Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear<\/em> (Phaidon Press, 2010) is Otto, played with by David, a Jewish boy, and his best friend Oskar in World War II Germany. David leaves the bear with Oskar when he and his family are sent to a concentration camp. Otto has an exciting wartime life, even managing to save the life of an American GI, who brings him home to his daughter in America &#8211; and eventually, long after the war is over, Otto brings David and Oskar together again. For ages 7-10.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Otto from Brainpickings, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/12\/11\/otto-the-autobiography-of-a-teddy-bear\/\">Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cats-in-krasinski-square-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cats-in-krasinski-square-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cats-in-krasinski-square-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cats-in-krasinski-square.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Karen Hesse\u2019s <em>The Cats in Krasinski Square<\/em> (Scholastic, 2010) \u2013 based on a true story \u2013 the cats play a crucial part in a plot to smuggle food and supplies to the Jews imprisoned in Poland\u2019s Warsaw Ghetto. For ages 7-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/twenty-and-ten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Claire Huchet Bishop\u2019s <em>Twenty and Ten<\/em> (Puffin, 1978), set in occupied France, is the story of twenty French schoolchildren who, under the leadership of the courageous Sister Gabriel, save ten Jewish children from the Nazis. A short chapter book for ages 7-12.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/when-hitler-stole-pink-rabbit-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/when-hitler-stole-pink-rabbit-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/when-hitler-stole-pink-rabbit.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Based on the real-life experiences of the author, in Judith Kerr\u2019s <em>When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit<\/em> (Puffin, 2009), Anna and her family must flee Berlin, which is no longer safe for Jews. Nine-year-old Anna, her mother, and brother flee first to Switzerland, then to France, and finally to England, where they rejoin Anna\u2019s father. They can take very little with them \u2013 and Pink Rabbit comes to represent all they ultimately left behind. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/upstairs-room-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/upstairs-room-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/upstairs-room.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Set during the German occupation of Holland, in Johanna Reiss\u2019s award-winning <em>The Upstairs Room<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2019), ten-year-old Anna and her sister, in danger because they are Jewish, spend two years hidden in a tiny cramped room in a remote farmhouse. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/number-the-stars-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/number-the-stars-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/number-the-stars.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Lois Lowry\u2019s <em>Number the Stars<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), the Germans have invaded Denmark and have begun a campaign to relocate Danish Jews. Annemarie Johansen\u2019s family is concealing Annemarie\u2019s Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen \u2013 and in the meantime the Danish resistance is working to evacuate the entire Jewish population of Denmark across the sea to safety in Sweden. Highly recommended for ages 9 and up.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/the-real-life-story-behind-number-the-stars\/\">The Real-Life Story Behind Number the Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/I-never-saw-another-butterfly.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p><em>I Never Saw Another Butterfly<\/em> (Schockers, 1994) is a collection of children\u2019s drawings and poems from the Terezin concentration camp between 1942 and 1944. Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the camp; fewer than 100 survived. A beautiful and heartbreaking book for ages 9 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-by-zullo-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-by-zullo-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-by-zullo.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Allan Zullo\u2019s <em>Survivors<\/em> (Scholastic, 2005) is a collection of true stories of nine Jewish children who survived the Holocaust, among them that of ten-year-old Mathei, who escaped from a cattle car en route to Auschwitz and became a resistance fighter, and of five-year-old Sarah, who spent two years hiding in the attic of a Polish family. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/black-radishes-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/black-radishes-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/black-radishes.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Susan Lynn Meyer\u2019s suspenseful <em>Black Radishes<\/em> (Yearling, 2011), young Gustave and his Jewish\u00a0 family have fled Paris when the Nazis occupy France. They settle in Saint-Georges, a village in the French free zone, where they become involved with the French resistance. Where the black radishes come in? In a plot to smuggle Jews out of the occupied zone, Gustave uses them to distract the border guards, because the German soldiers like them, salted, with their beer. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4>Books for Middle-Grade and Older Readers<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-children-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-children-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/irenas-children.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p><em>Irena\u2019s Children<\/em> by Tilar J. Mazzeo (Gallery Books, 2017) is a detailed account of the life of Irena Sendler \u2013 sometimes called \u201cthe female Oskar Schindler\u201d \u2013 for adults. There&#8217;s also a Young Readers edition of the book for ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>The Devil\u2019s Arithmetic<\/em> (Puffin, 2004), young Hannah Stern, bored with her family\u2019s stories of the Holocaust and dismissive of family history, is suddenly transported back in time to Poland in 1942, where she finds herself in a concentration camp. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie-1076x1536.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/devils-arithmetic-movie.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>The movie version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0179148\/\">The Devil\u2019s Arithmetic<\/a> (1999) stars Kirsten Dunst as Hannah. Not rated, but includes intense and disturbing scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hanas-suitcase-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hanas-suitcase-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hanas-suitcase.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Karen Levine\u2019s nonfiction <em>Hana\u2019s Suitcase<\/em> (Crown, 2016) is the story of the investigation of a Holocaust mystery which began when the curator of a Holocaust education center in Tokyo received an empty suitcase from the museum at Auschwitz. Painted on the side were the words \u201cHana Brady, May 16, 1931, Orphan.\u201d The book alternates between the modern-day quest for Hana and Hana\u2019s life in World War II Czechoslovakia which ended tragically at the Auschwitz concentration camp. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/behind-the-bedroom-wall-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/behind-the-bedroom-wall-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/behind-the-bedroom-wall.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Laura E. Williams\u2019s <em>Behind the Bedroom Wall<\/em> (Milkweed Editions, 2005), set in Germany in 1942, thirteen-year-old Korinna is an active member of her local Nazi youth group and a passionate believer in Hitler. Her parents, however, are members of the underground and are concealing a Jewish refugee family behind the wall in her bedroom. When Korinna discovers them, her sympathies gradually change \u2013 and her new beliefs are put to the test when someone tips off the Gestapo. For ages 10-14.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Markus Zusack\u2019s <em>The Book Thief<\/em> (Knopf, 2007), narrated by Death, is the story of Liesel Meminger, living with a foster family in World War II Germany, who steals books and shares them with her neighbors and with Max, the Jewish man whom her foster parents are hiding in their basement. A wonderful read for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/milkweed-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/milkweed-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/milkweed.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Jerry Spinelli\u2019s <em>Milkweed<\/em>, set in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II, is the story of Misha, an eight-year-old orphan, who lives on the streets, survives by stealing, and wants nothing more than to become one of the magnificent German Jackboots. Then the Germans begin rounding up the Jews and imprisoning them in the Warsaw ghetto, and Misha begins to understand the brutality of war. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/girl-in-blue-coat-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/girl-in-blue-coat-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/girl-in-blue-coat.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Monica Hesse\u2019s <em>Girl in the Blue Coat<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2017) is set in Amsterdam during the German occupation. Hanneke, who unbeknownst to her parents has been making money by delivering black market goods, is asked by a customer to find a Jewish girl whom she has been hiding \u2013 and who has mysteriously disappeared. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-bird-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-bird-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-bird.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>R.J. Palacio\u2019s graphic novel <em>White Bird<\/em> (Knopf, 2019) is the story of young Sara Blum in German-occupied France. When soldiers come to Sara\u2019s school to arrest the Jewish students, Sara is saved by Julien, a boy she and her classmates have teased and shunned because of his crippled condition, the result of polio. Sara is hidden in Julien\u2019s family barn for the duration of the war \u2013 and Julien becomes her closest friend. A painful and hopeful story, beautifully done, for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>John Boyne\u2019s <em>The Boy in Striped Pajamas<\/em> (David Fickling Books, 2007) is the story of two young boys, one the son of a concentration camp commandant, one \u2013 behind the barbed wire \u2013 a Jewish prisoner. The boys bond when they discover that they have the same birthday \u2013 and their affection for each other (spoiler) ends tragically. The book has received criticism for historical improbability, but pluses for emotional impact. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mapping-the-bones-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mapping-the-bones-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mapping-the-bones.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Mapping the Bones<\/em> (Penguin, 2019), set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Poland, is the story of twins Chaim and Gittel, who \u2013 after a failed attempt to escape to Russia \u2013 end up separated from their parents and sent to a concentration camp where, as twins, they are at risk from the infamous Doctor Von Schneir, modeled on Josef Mengele. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>From History.com, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/nazi-twin-experiments-mengele-eugenics\">Why the Nazis Were Obsessed With Twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/complete-maus-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/complete-maus-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/complete-maus.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Art Spiegelman\u2019s <em>The Complete Maus<\/em> (Pantheon, 1996), combines the story of Spiegelman\u2019s difficult relationship with his father with the World War II history of his parents\u2019 survival under the Nazis. The story is in the form of a graphic novel in which the Jews are shown as mice, the Nazis as cats. A remarkable work, and one that changed the public view of graphic novels forever. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/librarian-of-auschwitz-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/librarian-of-auschwitz-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/librarian-of-auschwitz.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Antonio Iturbe\u2019s <em>The Librarian of Auschwitz<\/em> (Henry Holt, 2017), 14-year-old Dita, a prisoner at Auschwitz, passionate book lover, and helper in the makeshift camp school, is asked to take charge of the eight books smuggled in by inmates that comprise the camp\u2019s entire library. If discovered, this means certain death. For ages 13 and up.<\/p>\n<p>The book is based on a true story. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/news-features\/dita-kraus-the-librarian-of-auschwitz-1.457402\">Dita Kraus: The Librarian of Auschwitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-club-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-club-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/survivors-club.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>By Michael Bornstein, <em>Survivors Club<\/em> (Square Fish, 2019) is the memoir of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz \u2013 Bornstein was four years old when the camp was liberated. A heartbreaking nonfiction narrative. For ages 10-14.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/briar-rose-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/briar-rose-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/briar-rose-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/briar-rose-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/briar-rose.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Briar Rose<\/em> (Tor Teen, 2016) is a re-telling of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, set in Poland during the Holocaust. Becca has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma\u2019s Briar Rose story. On Gemma\u2019s deathbed, she asks Becca to promise to find the castle, the prince, and the maker of spells \u2013 which leads Becca to discover Gemma\u2019s real history. For teens.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/night-by-wiesel-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/night-by-wiesel-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/night-by-wiesel.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Elie Wiesel\u2019s <em>Night<\/em> (Hill and Wang, 2006) is an autobiographical account of Wiesel\u2019s survival as a teenager in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is the first of a trilogy; subsequent volumes are <em>Dawn<\/em> and <em>Day<\/em>. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mila-18-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mila-18-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mila-18.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>Leon Uris\u2019s epic <em>Mila 18<\/em> (Bantam, 1983) is the fictionalized story of Poland\u2019s Warsaw ghetto uprising, when \u2013 after the Germans ordered the liquidation of the ghetto and the deportation of its inhabitants to the death camps \u2013 Jewish resistance fighters, armed with homemade weapons, held the Germans off for a month. A gripping and inspiring story for teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/warsaw-ghetto-uprising\">Warsaw Ghetto Uprising<\/a> in the Holocaust Encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-reader-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-reader-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-reader.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p>In Bernhard Schlink\u2019s <em>The Reader<\/em> (Vintage, 1997), 15-year-old Michael is seduced by Hanna, a woman twice his age. Hanna then disappears, only to be discovered six years later, when Michael \u2013 now a law student \u2013 finds her on trial for war crimes as a concentration camp guard. Hanna refuses to reveal her shameful secret \u2013 that she is illiterate \u2013 and is sentenced to life in prison. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/161962\/the-reader-by-bernhard-schlink\/9780375707971\/readers-guide\/\">The Reader Reader\u2019s Guide<\/a> for a list of discussion topics and questions.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4>Movies<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 1976px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas-movie-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas-movie-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/boy-in-striped-pajamas-movie.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0914798\/\">The Boy in Striped Pajamas<\/a> (2008) is the story of the unlikely friendship between two eight-year-old boys, Bruno, son of a concentration camp commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish prisoner. It has \u2013 yes, spoiler \u2013 a tragic ending. Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-movie-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-movie-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-movie-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-movie-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-book-thief-movie.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0816442\/\">The Book Thief<\/a> (2013), young Liesel Meminger, living with a foster family in Germany during World War II, is taught to read by her kindly foster father \u2013 and begins her book thievery by saving a book from a book burning. Eventually she steals \u2013 \u201cborrows\u201d \u2013 books to share with Jewish Max, whom her foster parents are hiding in their basement. Narrated, via voiceover, by Death himself. Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jojo-rabbit-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jojo-rabbit-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jojo-rabbit-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jojo-rabbit-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jojo-rabbit.jpg 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>Taika Waititi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2584384\/\">JoJo Rabbit<\/a> (2019) is a brilliant satirical film about Jojo, a young German boy, whose single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Issues of prejudice and blind nationalism (both encouraged by Jojo\u2019s imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler). Highly recommended. Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 316px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/life-is-beautiful-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/life-is-beautiful-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/life-is-beautiful-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/life-is-beautiful-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/life-is-beautiful.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 316px;\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118799\/\">Life is Beautiful<\/a> (1997), when a Jewish librarian and his son are sent to a concentration camp, the father uses humor and imagination to help his son survive, pretending that the Holocaust is a game, with a grand prize of winning a tank. Winner of an Academy Award. Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 344px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 344px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/judgment-at-nuremberg-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/judgment-at-nuremberg-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/judgment-at-nuremberg.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 344px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055031\/\">Judgment at Nuremberg<\/a> (1961) \u2013 with an impressive all-star cast including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, and Marlene Dietrich \u2013 is the story of the post-war trial of four accused Nazi war criminals. Not rated.<\/p>\n<p>From Teach with Movies, see <a href=\"http:\/\/teachwithmovies.org\/judgment-at-nuremberg\/\">Judgment at Nuremberg<\/a> for teaching suggestions, research projects, and discussion questions. The site recommends the film for ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 368px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 368px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/conspiracy-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/conspiracy-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/conspiracy.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 368px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0266425\/\">Conspiracy<\/a> (2001) is a brilliant and chilling portrayal of the Wannsee Conference of 1942 in which Nazi officials met to decide upon the \u201cFinal Solution to the Jewish Question,\u201d with Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann. Beautifully done and utterly horrifying. Most of the action takes place around a conference table. It\u2019s rated R, apparently for occasional bad language and drinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/schindlers-list-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/schindlers-list-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/schindlers-list-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/schindlers-list-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/schindlers-list.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108052\">Schindler\u2019s List<\/a> (1993) is the story of industrialist Oskar Schindler, owner of a factory in German-occupied Poland, who gradually becomes horrified by Nazi policies, eventually turning his factory into a haven for Jews, and saving over a thousand from death at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It\u2019s rated R for sex and violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the Holocaust to children is tough. 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