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Featured Book |
| In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 25), the ADL remembers those who lost their lives during the Holocaust, the heroes who fought to save Jewish lives, and the rare few who managed to survive. The two featured books for April 2006 educate young children about the events of the Holocaust through the stories of two children, a French Jewish boy who manage to survive after being hidden by a Christian woman throughout World War II, and a son of a Japanese diplomat who watched as his father signed thousands of visas against the will of his government to save the lives of Jewish refugees. These two stories exemplify the courageous actions of allies to stand up to hate and bigotry, and demonstrate for young people the difference that even one person can make. |
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee (Illustrator), Hiroki Sugihara (Afterword) |
 The story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust in defiance of Japanese government orders. Narrated by his son, Hiroki Sugihara, this story describes how thousands of Jews crossed the border to Lithuania as Nazi soldiers invaded Poland in 1940. Hundreds of these Jewish refugees besieged the Japanese consulate in Lithuania for travel visas to escape the Nazis. Contrary to government orders, Chiune Sugihara issued thousands of visas to these Jewish refugees who became Sugihara survivors. Sugihara received the "Righteous Among Nations" Award from Yad Vashem in 1985, and in 1992 the Hill of Humanity in Yaotsu, Japan was named in his honor.
| ISBN: |
1584301570 |
| Year: |
September 2003 |
| Publisher: |
Lee & Low Books, Inc. |
| Grade Level: |
2- 4 |
| Pages: |
32 |
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Hidden Child
Isaac Millman |
A biographical account of Holocaust survivor, Isaac Sztrymfman, who was seven years old when the Nazis invaded Paris. Shortly after the Nazis arrived, Issac’s father was arrested, and two years after his father’s internment Isaac and his mother were arrested as they tried to escape to the free zone in the south of France. To save Isaac, his mother bribed a prison guard with money and jewelry to take Isaac to a hospital where Catholic nuns protected children who pretended to be ill. Isaac was later returned to Paris, abandoned, and rescued again by a Jewish woman in hiding who took him to live with a Christian woman in the countryside. He lived out the rest of the war pretending to be Christian. At the end of the war, Isaac learned that his parents did not survive, and was eventually adopted by an American Jewish family, the Millmans, at the age of fifteen.
| ISBN: |
0374330719 |
| Year: |
September 2005 |
| Publisher: |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Grade Level: |
4 - 6 |
| Pages: |
80 |
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