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SOURCE: YouTube, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Nazi book burning, (2013), Duration: 9:41, URL:  https://youtu.be/yHzM1gXaiVo

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Fascism

The books in this series will focus on the major types of government found in the world today. They will explain, in terms that are clear and understandable to young adults, not only how the major forms of government function but also their philosophical underpinnings. The books will illustrate how ideas about good governance have evolved over the course of history.

 

Erika's story

A true story of survival and courage during the Second World War.

In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Ruth Vander Zee and her husband were in Germany where they met Erika, a German Jew, and listened to her story.

German boy :a child in war

A little boy named Wolfgang Samuel,  left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. 

Nowhere to run

On cover: A Second World War refugee's diary, 1938-1943.Summary: Becky Mortkowicz's family are Jewish refugees from Poland, while Claudette leads a happy carefree life in Paris. Two girls from very different backgrounds, but the horrors of the Nazi occupation will bring them dramatically together.

SOURCE: Glogster, Chigley, The Book Thief (ca. 2015), URL:  https://edu.glogster.com/glog/the-book-thief/2aa0ec5rhsi?=glogpedia-source