Light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgorska by Cameron, Sharon 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2021)

BTSB #: 184074 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.2 UG Lexile: 650 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Burzminski, Stefania Podgorska - Fiction Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust - Fiction Jews - Poland - Przemysl - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Przemysl (Poland) - History|y20th century - Fiction Poland - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.

Once by Gleitzman, Morris 

Paperback(Square Fish, 2013)

BTSB #: 381332 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.1 MG+RC: 3.7 6-8 Lexile: 640 F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Separation (Psychology) - Fiction Orphans - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Poland - History|yOccupation, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Prisoner B-3087 by Gratz, Alan 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2013)

BTSB #: 393480 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG+RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 760

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Gruener, Jack - Fiction Jews - Poland - Krakow - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Holocaust survivors - Fiction Krakow (Poland) - History - Fiction Poland - History - Fiction

Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Prisoner B-3087 : a novel by Gratz, Alan 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P03048 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Gruener, Jack - Fiction Jews - Poland - Krakow - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Holocaust survivors - Fiction Krakow (Poland) - History - Fiction Poland - History - Fiction

Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Resistance by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 676475 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Warsaw (Poland) - History|yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction Poland - History|yOccupation, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.

Resistance by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P06157 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Warsaw (Poland) - History|yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction Poland - History|yOccupation, 1939-1945 - Fiction

Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.

They went left by Hesse, Monica 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 441479 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Holocaust survivors - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Europe - History|y1945- - Fiction Poland - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction

Summary: Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.