I survived the Nazi invasion, 1944 by Tarshis, Lauren 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03416 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Poland - History - Fiction

Summary: In a Polish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. They are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters but soon, bombs are falling all around them.

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.

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.

Uprising by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2024)

BTSB #: 676456 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG Lexile: 700

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction National socialists - Fiction Warsaw (Poland) - History|yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.

Uprising by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

Audio Book(Playaway, 2024)

BTSB #: P09955 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction National socialists - Fiction Warsaw (Poland) - History|yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.