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Hidden on the High Wire

Kathy Kacer
Hidden on the High Wire Book PDF

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772602524

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Hidden on the High Wire by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene’s father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is a frightening new kind of balancing act, caught between the desire to perform and the need to hide—even in plain sight.

The Secret of Gabi's Dresser

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781926739649

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The Secret of Gabi's Dresser by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Gabi is a young Jewish girl living in Czechoslovakia during the time of the Holocaust. Gradually life is getting harder and harder. Jews are bullied at school, they can't visit each other at a certain time, they have to walk everywhere, they are not allowed to go to non-Jewish stores, and finally Gabi's best friend deserts her because she is Jewish. One day, the Nazis start visiting all the houses looking for Jewish children. In a tremendous act of courage, Gabi's mother protects Gabi from the soldiers by hiding her in their dining-room dresser. This is the story of author Kathy Kacer's own mother, who was the real-life Gabi. The only thing retrieved from their family's home after the war was the dresser that saved Gabi's life. It now sits in author Kathy Kacer's home in Toronto.

Hiding Edith

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926739311

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Hiding Edith by Kathy Kacer Pdf

The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe house, risking their own safety by hiding the children from the Nazis in plain site, saving them from being captured and detained and most certainly saving their lives.

Under the Iron Bridge

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781772602067

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Under the Iron Bridge by Kathy Kacer Pdf

It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city’s Jews, but even Paul’s parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when he’s starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis. When he joins the rebel organization, he finds out just how hair-raising and dangerous it is to sabotage the Third Reich and rescue Jews wherever they can. But choices have consequences, and during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, Paul must step out of the shadows and make a life-changing decision. Inspired by the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, a group that declared “Eternal War on the Hitler Youth,” Under the Iron Bridge is a tale of courage in the face of cruelty.

Shanghai Escape

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 13-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781927583111

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Shanghai Escape by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Shanghai, China is a strange place for a young Jewish girl from ViennaÉ But that is where Lily Toufar finds herself in 1938. She and her family have left their home to find safety far away from Europe, where Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party are making life unbearable for Jews. TheyÕve had to travel fast Ð Lily even had to leave behind most of her toys and books Ð but here she feels free from danger. Despite their hopes, it quickly turns out that all is not safe in Shanghai. Now that the area is controlled by Japan, whose leaders support Hitler, the local government orders Jewish refugees, including Lily and her family, to move into a ghetto in an area of the city called Hongkew. Once again Lily wonders what will happen next. Life changes for Lily and her family when they are forced to the over-crowded ghetto. There is little food to eat, and many people become sick. Lily remains hopeful, but when rumors begin to circulate that Jews may be in as much danger here as they were in Europe, she wonders if she will ever feel truly safe and at home again. Based on a true story.

Restitution

Kathy Kacer
Restitution Book PDF

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926920122

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Based on the true story of a Jewish family's fight to regain a symbol of their lost life, Restitution begins in Prague on the eve of the Nazi invasion. The Reesers know that they must flee Czechoslovakia, but first they deliver their valuable oil paintings into the hands of a Christian colleague for safekeeping. Led by their intrepid matriarch, Mari Reeser, the family make their escape under the nose of the Nazis, arriving in Canada just days before WWII begins. Despite a successful new life in Toronto, the Reesers never forgot what was left behind. When peace returned to Europe, Mari fought for the return of the paintings, only to be thwarted by the Communist regime. Hope sparked again in 1989 when Mari's son, Karl Reeser, received a letter saying the paintings were his if he could retrieve them. Finding all legal means closed to him, he traveled to Prague to make one last try. Here, fate intervened with an unlikely savior named Richard VandenBosch, an official at the Canadian Embassy. Together, he and Karl manage to retrieve the paintings and secrete them in the embassy. The final hurdle -- how to get the paintings to Canada? -- is solved by a resourceful art dealer and smuggler named Theofil Kral, whose honest desire to help the Reeser family restore a symbol of their vanished life sees the four paintings returned to them at last.

To Hope and Back

Kathy Kacer
To Hope and Back Book PDF

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920405

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To Hope and Back by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Lisa and Sol board the luxury ocean liner St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. Lisa and her family are in first class; Sol and his parents are below in tourist class. Both children have mixed feelings Ð theyÕre excited to be beginning this voyage to a better life, but sad to be leaving their old lives behind. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the 937 passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years. As the ship sets sail for Cuba, the atmosphere is optimistic. The passengers feel fortunate to have been able to buy landing permits, and their German captain, Gustave Shršder, is determined to get them to safety. The captainÕs voice alternates with Sol and LisaÕs, revealing the details they didnÕt know. As HitlerÕs propaganda machine turns Cuba against them, the mood on board changes to despair. The St. Louis and its Jewish passengers are turned away Ð first from Cuba, then the United States, and then Canada. This was the tragic true history of the St. Louis. Denied entry from port after port, the captain was forced to return his passengers to Europe, where many died in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of Sol and Lisa Ð both of whom survived the war and shared their experiences with Kathy Kacer Ð we see the injustice and heartbreak that were caused by the prejudice and ignorance of so many.

Night Spies

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781926739458

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Based on real events and real characters! It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to unknown fates. But she, her mother and her young cousin, Max, realize that they will never be safe in their town. With the help of a trusted friend, a kind-hearted priest and a poor yet brave farming family, they go into hiding in a tiny mountain village. It takes great willpower and patience to endure months of fear in their cramped hiding space at the back of a barn. But one night, Gabi and Max can't stand the confinement any longer, and they sneak out for the first of many secret nighttime walks. Deep in the forest, the children make a discovery that turns out to be very useful to the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers camped out nearby. Through their new roles as scouts for the partisans, Gabi and Max find strength and courage, and a renewed sense of hope in dark times.

Clara's War

Clara Kramer,Stephen Glantz
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Author : Clara Kramer,Stephen Glantz
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551993683

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Clara's War by Clara Kramer,Stephen Glantz Pdf

“You lose your loved ones, and still you want to live.” On 21 July 1942, the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew. Life for fifteen-year-old Clara Kramer would never be the same. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, three families found perilous refuge in a hand-dug cellar. Hers was one of them. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mrs. Beck had been the families’ maid. Mr. Beck was alcoholic and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life to keep his charges safe. But survival under his protection proved to be anything but predictable. Whether it was his nightly drinking sessions with officers of the SS in the room just above or his torrid affair with one of the hiding women, it seemed that Clara and the others often had as much to fear from Beck as they did from the war. Clara’s mother told her to keep a diary while they lived in the bunker in order to fill her time and “so the world would know what happened to us.” Over sixty years later, Clara Kramer has finally turned those diaries into a compelling and heartbreaking memoir — a story of love and memory and survival.

The Underground Reporters

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0237531593

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In Budejovice, a quiet village in the Czech Republic, during the Second World War, a plot of land by the river was allocated to the Jewish youth of the village. There, some brave young people decided to create a newspaper. This book chronicles the lives of the young people who were the newspaper's creators and contributors.

On the High Wire

Philippe Petit
On the High Wire Book PDF

Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811228657

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On the High Wire by Philippe Petit Pdf

“On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.

The Brushmaker's Daughter

Kathy Kacer
The Brushmaker s Daughter Book PDF

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772601398

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The Brushmaker's Daughter by Kathy Kacer Pdf

It is 1939 in Berlin, Germany, and twelve-year-old Lillian and her Papa are on the run from Nazi soldiers. Because they are Jewish, they are in danger of being arrested and put in prison. Lillian's father is blind and it seems no one is willing to help them, until they meet Otto Weidt. Mr. Weidt runs a factory that makes brushes for the Nazi army, and his secret is that he employs blind Jewish workers. Lillian soon learns that Otto Weidt is determined to keep her, Papa, and all the Jewish workers safe. But will he be able to? Inspired by a true story.

Diary of Laura's Twin

Kathy Kacer
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Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781926739168

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Diary of Laura's Twin by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish becoming of age ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Sara never had the chance to celebrate her coming of age, so Laura is to learn about Sara's life and then share her Bat Mitzvah with her "twin" by speaking of her at the ceremony. Reluctant to undertake the project at first, Laura quickly becomes caught up by Sara's struggle to survive. Sara's diary unfolds with the details of her daily life in the Ghetto, a world full of fear, confusion, tragedy and above all, courage. From Sara's brave story in the past, Laura learns how to find the courage to confront the possibility of a friend's current involvement in the desecration of a Jewish cemetery.

Starring Mirette and Bellini

Emily Arnold McCully
Starring Mirette and Bellini Book PDF

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781630834166

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Starring Mirette and Bellini by Emily Arnold McCully Pdf

Mirette and the Great Bellini sweep all of Europe with their act on the high wire, but when Bellini is arrested after a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette is challenged to master the Death Walk to save him from prison. The sequel to the Caldecott Medal-winning Mirette on the High Wire.

High-Wire Heartbreak

Anna Schmidt
High Wire Heartbreak Book PDF

Author : Anna Schmidt
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636091396

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High-Wire Heartbreak by Anna Schmidt Pdf

In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca d’Zan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and possibly death. A successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca’ d’Zan to research her next novel. Chloe’s fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. She’s heard hints of scandal—and perhaps larceny, but no details. Chloe’s grandmother—rumored to be Lucinda’s only offspring—was raised in an orphanage and never knew her mother. Intrigued as she is, Chloe has no intent of writing about Lucinda until she sees a poster featuring Lucinda as the star performer for a 70th birthday gala for John Ringling in May of 1936. From there the trail goes cold. Who was Lucinda and what happened to her?