DHRC The resources on this page contain information about the extraordinary individuals and organizations involved in the resistance movement against the Nazis. Print Resources: Adler, David A. DS135.N6 B343 1997 Check availability Hiding from the Nazis Gr. 2-4 The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis. Alma, Ann DJ283.A2 A46 2008 Check availability Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis Gr. 4-7 Told through the eyes of a child, this is the story of the Braals, two people who willingly put themselves in great danger in order to save the lives of those less fortunate. Anflick, Charles D804.48.A53 1999 Check availability Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny (Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust) Gr. 6-8 This title discusses armed, unarmed, and spiritual resistance to the Nazis during World War II. In doing so, it highlights several teenagers who played important roles during this time. Army Times D802.E9 H4 Check availability Heroes of the Resistance: Adventures of Underground Fighters in Europe during the World War II Gr. 6-8 Accounts of the people who fought back, throughout Europe, against the Nazi terror, describing the courage and daring of such operations as printing clandestine newspapers, blowing up bridges, and helping allies escape. Arnold, Elliott PZ7.A7352 Ki Check availability A Kind of Secret Weapon Gr. 4-8 Relates one family's contribution to the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II. Axelrod, Toby DD256.3 S3348 2001 Check availability Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose (Holocaust Biographies) Gr. 6-8 page 1 / 16 DHRC Profiles the brother and sister who founded White Rose, a student group at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians University which attempted to build resistance against Hitler through anti-Nazi leaflets and grafitti. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell PZ7.B2844 Boy 2008 Check availability The Boy Who Dared Gr. 6 and Up In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hèubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. NOTE: An audiobook version is available. Check availability Teacher Resource: http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=1301886& This site offers a book talk as well as a discussion guide that includes common german vocabulary associated with this time period, descriptions of how setting, characters and plot affect the narrative and a selection of passages for a reader's theater of the story. It also includes secions on understanding German propaganda and political ideologies. Benshalom, Rafi DS135.H92 B83213 2001 Check Availability We Struggled for Life: The Hungarian Zionist Youth Resistance During the Nazi Era This is an authentic personal report about the activities of the Halutz underground movement during the German occupation in 1944. It describes the activities and the struggle of the Zionist resistance. Berger, Ralph S. D810.J4 B47 W5 2010 Check availability With Courage Shall We Fight: The Memoirs and Poetry of Holocaust Resistance Fighters Gr. 8-12 Memoir, in prose and poetry, of Murray Motke and Frances Fruma Gulkowich Berger's story of survival. Borden, Louise D804.66.W35 B67 2012 Check availability His Name was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue, and Mystery During the Holocaust Gr. 7-10 A World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many. Byers, Ann D804.48.B946 2010 Check availability Courageous Teen Resisters: Primary Sources from the Holocaust (True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust) Gr. 6-10 Examines the stories of children and teen resisters in Europe during the Holocaust. Drucker, Malka page 2 / 16 DHRC PZ7.D824 Jac 1994 Check availability Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story Gr. 5-9 In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Elkins, Michael D810.J4 E475 Check availability Forged in Fury This is the story of the men and women and children who fought during the war, fought from the death camps, fought from the ghettos-- and of the survivors who continued to fight when the official war was over, and who have never ceased to fight. Fishkin, Rebecca Love D804.6.F57 2011 Check availability Heroes of the Holocaust (The Holocaust) Gr. 6-8 Tells the stories of those who defied and resisted the Nazis. Flender, Harold D810.J4 F55 1964 Check availability Rescue in Denmark How occupied Denmark rose as a nation to save the Danish Jew from Nazi extermination. Forman, James D. D804.34.F67 1976 Check availability The Survivor Gr. 9-12 An account of a Jewish family in Holand during World War II as one by one it dwindles away during the Nazi Holocaust. Freedman, Russell DD256.3.F74 2016 Check Availability We Will Not Be Silent Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. Fremon, David K. D804.6.F74 1998 Check Availabililty The Holocaust Heroes Gr. 5-8 Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution. Fry, Varian D809.F7 F79 1992 Check availability page 3 / 16 DHRC Assignment: Rescue: An Autobiography Gr. 7-12 An undercover agent during World War II describes how he sneaked into Vichy France and rescued thousands of men and women slated to be sent to concentration camps. Teacher Resource: http://www.holocaust-trc.org/frylphs.htm This site contains an eight day unit plan for the book. Gold, Alison Leslie D804.66.S84 G66 2000 Check availability A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust Gr. 5-10 A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithunia, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors. Graber, Janet PZ7.G7488 Re 2005 Check availability Resistance Gr. 7-9 In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement. Hay, Peter CT1919.P38 S365 1986 Check availability Ordinary Heroes: Chana Szenes and the Dream of Zion Safe in Palestine during World War II, Hannah Senesh volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. She was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and torture, and was finally executed as a spy at the age of twenty-three. Hesse, Karen PZ7.H4364 Cat 2004 Check availability The Cats in Krasinski Square Gr. 3-5 Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall. Teacher Resource: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/CatsinKrasinkski.php This website contains a unit plan for the text involving each core subject as well as Art and Cooking. Hopkinson, Deborah D802.D4 H647 2015 Check Availability page 4 / 16 DHRC Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark Gr. 5-8 Hopkinson traces the stories of the heroic young men an dwomen who would not stand by as their country was occupied by the Nazis. Ippisch, Hanneke D802.N4 I66 1996 Check availability Sky: A True Story of Resistance During World War II Gr. 6-8 The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans. Ippisch, Hanneke D811.5.I67 2007 Check Availability Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II Gr. 4-8 The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans. Joukowsky, Artemis D804.66.S48 J68 2016 Check Availability Defying the Nazis: The Sharp's War In 933, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Kacer, Kathy PZ7.K1154 Ni 2003 Check availability The Night Spies Gr. 4-7 After hiding from the Nazis for months, cousins Max and Gabi decide to take a nighttime walk and discover something incredible that can help put an end to the Nazi regime. Levine, Ellen DS135.D4 L4 2000 Check availability Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews Gr. 5-8 An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II. Margolis, Rahel D802.L5 M2813 2010 Check Availability A Partisan from Vilna Gr. 9 and up In this memoir, Margolis describes how she escaped the Vilna ghetto and her wartime activity as a member page 5 / 16 DHRC of the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania. McArthur, Debra D804.66.W35 M33 2005 Check availability Raoul Wallenberg: Rescuing Thousands from the Nazis' Grasp Gr. 9-12 In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, had one goal: to save as many Jews as possible from Nazi execution.