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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, Anne. Eds. Otto H Frank. and Mirjam Pressler. Anne Frank: Diary of a

Young Girl. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

The diary of a young girl through the darkest times in our history. In her diary

Anne documents her two years in hiding, her first love, and her secrets.

(Nonfiction)

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Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

Folman, Ari. Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. Illus. David Polonsky

Pantheon Books NY, 2018.

Authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic

edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive

edition. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations

interpret an add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of

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The Avengers: A Jewish War Story

Cohen, Rich. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story. NY: Alfred Knopf, 2000.

Abba Kovner, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak-comrades, lovers, friends. In the

Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna, they were the heart of a breathtakingly courageous

underground movement, and when the ghetto was liquidated, they fled to the

forests and joined other partisans in continued sabotage and resistance.

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The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Picador, 2005.

The story of a young orphaned girl named Liesel who learns the trials of Nazi

Germany as her family shelters a Jewish boy. (Fiction)

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Courage to Care

Rittner, Carol and Sondra Myers, eds. Courage to Care. New York: New York

University Press, 1986.

Profiles of individuals who risked their lives and the lives of their families to save

Jewish people during the Holocaust. (Nonfiction)

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7th/8th Grade Holocaust Teaching Trunk

Investigating the Holocaust: What Happened and Why?

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Devil’s Arithmetic

Yolen, Jane. Devil’s Arithmetic. New York: Puffin Books, 1988.

Hannah, a 12 year old girl, is transported to a 1940’s Polish village

during a Passover seder. She experiences the very horrors that

had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their

Holocaust stories. (Fiction)

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Friedrich

Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. New York: Puffin Books, 1961.

Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the

early thirties. At first, Friedrich seemed to be more fortunate. His

father was well respected and prosperous, while his friend’s father

had no job. Then Hitler came to power and things began to

change. Friedrich’s world was turned upside down – all because

he was Jewish. (Fiction)

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Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens

Zullo, Allan and Bovsun, Mara. Heroes of the Holocaust: True

Stories of Rescues.

Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager whose family took in

Jewish men in Nazi occupied Poland. Her story is one of five

featured in this book of young people putting their lives on the

line for others.

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Milkweed

Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed NY: Scholastic Inc, 2004.

He has no name, no home, no family and no background. He steals

food, sleeps in the street and survives by not getting caught. He

sleeps in a cellar with a band of boys who are just like him, who

steal to stay alive and do their best to go unnoticed by the

Jackboots. It is not safe to be a Jew, a Gypsy or a homeless

orphan. The best thing to be is invisible. (Fiction)

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Other Victims

Each booklet focuses on one of the non-Jewish groups targeted by

the Nazis – Handicapped, Homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah’s

Witnesses, Roma & Sinti. Created by the US Holocaust Memorial

Museum.

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Parallel Journeys

Ayer, Eleanor. With Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Parallel Journeys. NY:

Atheneum Books, 1995.

A true story of a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, and a young Jewish girl,

also living in Nazi Germany. Alfons rose in leadership in the Hitler Youth while

Helen’s family fled to Holland, only later to be captured and deported to

Auschwitz. The two met in the 1980’s. (Nonfiction)

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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

Zullo, Allan. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust. Scholastic

Paperbacks, 2005.

True stories of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives were impacted by the

Holocaust. (Nonfiction)

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Ten Thousand Children

Fox, Anne L., and Eva Abraham-Podietz. Ten Thousand Children. NJ: Behrman

House Inc., 1999.

True stories told by children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport.

First person accounts. (Non-fiction)

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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust

Bunting, Eve. Stephen Gammell. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust.

PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1993.

“The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came,

capturing all creatures with feathers. .. In this unique introduction to the

Holocaust, Bunting encourages young children to stand up for what they think is

right, without waiting for others to join them.” (Fiction)

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The World Must Know

Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.,

1993.

This book tells the history of the Holocaust using photos and documents

obtained from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Nonfiction)

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Yellow Star

Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. NY: Scholastic, 2006.

The story, biographical and written in free verse, depicts life through the eyes of

a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during

World War II. Roy tells her aunt Syvia’s story, covering her life as she grows from

four and a half to ten years old in the ghetto.

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Artifact

Description

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John Rock Photo Album - Unaccompanied Children 1

Passport 1

Piece of Blanket 1

Shoe 1

Star 1

Class Photo - Frieda Soury 1

Iron Cross 1

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Artifact

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Cigarette Cards 4

[P[Poster]

[Poster]

Boy Scout Card

Poster - Badges of Hate

1

1

[Poster]

Poster - Map of Europe 1

[Poster]

Poster - Timeline 1

Photo Cards of Local Holocaust Survivors

Short biographies, including QR codes, of local Holocaust survivors

featured in the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s core exhibit, and

online Survivor Encyclopedia (https://

www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-survivors-

in-washington)

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(in envelope)

Activity - Identification Cards (small binder)

Created by the USHMM. A full set of these cards, and additional

identification cards are available here:

https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-materials/

identification-cards-and-personal-stories

1 binder

Curriculum Binder

3-ring binder containing resources, activities, and lesson plans

for the materials in the trunk.

1 binder

FILMS

The following films are available to watch online or on dvd by

request: “Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth, “ “I’m Still

Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived through the

Holocaust,” “Porcelain Unicorn,” “The Short Life of Anne Frank,”

and “With My Own Eyes: Holocaust, Genocide, Today.”