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Kristallnacht
On November 10, 1938, Francis Schott slept peacefully in his bed. Suddenly, a group of Nazis broke into his house and began to destroy it. They wanted to demolish everything because Francis's family was Jewish. For days, violent attacks like this took place throughout Nazi Germany and came to be known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass." The Nazis destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses, burned down hundreds of synagogues, and murdered many people. The brutal assault came to an end, but it marked the beginning of something much worse: the Holocaust.
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The Kindertransport recounts the turmoil and tragedy experienced by many of the "lucky" children who survived the Holocaust by being rescued by the British. The children rescued were victims toomany were mistreated by their host families, some suffered from bedwetting and loneliness, and most never saw their parents alive again. Those who were reunited sometimes agonized over leaving their adoptive parents. Kristallnacht takes readers through the horror of November 7-10, 1938 by describing the terror through the eyes of ten victims and perpetrators of the period. The Holocaust is not just the story of six million, but it is the experience of each individual who lived during World War II. The book documents people from history, both evil and innocent. Some of the people portrayed are Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers mastermind; Jurgen Herbst, a Hitler youth; and Herschel Grynspan, the scapegoat who the Germans claimed was the spark who caused Krystallnacht. Liberation takes readers into the world of camps for people who were displaced after the war ended. It shows that even though the war was over, there was no "happily ever after" for victims of the Holocaust. Each person who survived lived with everlasting scars that affected them and their families for generations to come. This slim book contains the stories of both the famous and the unknown, from General Dwight D. Eisenhower to people from Poland, Lithuania, Greece, and other countries affected by World War II.
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6-7 IL
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6-12+ GRL
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