Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Introduces Asser Levy, a member of the first group of refugee Jews who, fleeing persecution, arrived in America from Brazil in 1654 and began a legal fight for religious and civil rights. Includes historical notes, timeline, and glossary.

Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).

"Glidden, a progressive American Jew who is sharply critical of Israeli policies vis-�a-vis the Occupied Territories, went on an all-expense-paid 'birthright' trip to Israel in an attempt to discover some grand truths at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This graphic memoir tells the touching and often funny story of her utter failure to do so."--Amazon.com.

The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer{u2014}distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instrushy;ments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler{u2019}s concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa M�uller...

"Explore some of the English language's most important literary works with Lightbox Literature Studies. Each title in the series features comprehensive teacher resources, such as rubrics and activity-oriented teacher notes, to help guide lesson plans. Historical documents and first-hand accounts provide meaningful context to help readers study each work of literature and discover its relevance today" --

Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.

Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines: how desperate men and women tried to secure their families' futures by opening bank accounts in Switzerland; how the Nazis laundered, through Swiss banks, gold seized from the treasuries of occupied countries, much of it looted from the Jews; how the demands of international business, Swiss bank secrecy, and greed have conspired to prevent the truth from...

"His road leads to the place of nightmares. But will that stop be his last? Hungary, 1939. Like most Hungarian Jews during the onset of World War II, Shomo Stern is sent to the front lines with the Forced Labor Services - to be worked to death under the thumb of the Nazi war machine. Fighting the bitter European winter, the battalions witness horrific events in the wake of the Nazi advance. Then the rumors start. Rumors of trains packed full of Jews,...