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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A dual narrative WWII historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty, about two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine that was stolen by the Nazis. In 1942, seven-year-old Martine hears her father being dragged off by the Germans as she hides in her armoire. Pinned to her dress is a piece of paper with her aunt's Paris address written on it, and in her arms is a bottle of wine she...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the...
Author
Series
War that saved my life volume 2
Language
English
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"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Cyrla lives with her Dutch relatives in Nazi-occupied Holland. She has been successfully hiding the fact that she is half-Jewish--until neighbors threaten to expose her identity. Through an cruel twist of fate, Cyrla enters a Lebensborn as her pregnant cousin, Anneke. Cyrla wants to keep her child, though, so she resolves to leave the maternity home before the baby is born. But an unexpected visit from the German soldier who fathered Anneke's baby...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Guernsey, as WWII looms, many islanders make the heartbreaking choice to ship their children to safety in England, not knowing when (or if) they will be reunited. Acting on faith, Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly send their 9-year-old son Henry and four-year-old daughter Catherine with their children's teacher Helen, who will escort them to the mainland. But Helen's sister Lily is fleeing an abusive, childless marriage, and, just...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 a young girl sits alone in a station waiting room in Marseilles. Half-Jewish Ilse has been sent out of Nazi Germany to safety in Morocco by her mother. But her journey takes her back to France, where she cannot escape the Nazi occupation. Blown about by circumstances beyond her control, she must grow up alone in a demi-monde of refugees, whores and freedom fighters.
In Germany, Nicolai struggles against his destiny in the Hitler Youth. His...
11) The rabbit girl
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What is the mystery of the Rabbit Girl picture? Its secret is woven into two stories, one past, one present, told side by side. The first tells how 1940s evacuee Tony and his friend Alice befriend a fascinating old lady in the Lake District who introduces them to the countryside and draws Alice's portrait. In the second, teenage Mallie takes a part-time job in a pet shop, buys her artist mother a dusty old picture as a birthday present, and tries...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, "A Master Plan for Rescue "is an enchanting novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is two love stories. It is the story of a child who worships his parents, then loses his father to an accident and his mother to her resulting grief. And it is the story of a young man who stumbles into the romance of his life, then watches her decline, forever...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Alex Ehren es poeta y maestro en el bloque número 31 de Auschwitz-Birkenau, el bloque infantil. Pasó sus días intentando sobrevivir mientras de manera ilegal daba clases a los niños, tratando de blindarlos lo mejor que podía de la horrible realidad que se vivía en el campo. Pero intentar dar lecciones a los niños no fue la única actividad ilícita en la que Alex estuvo involucrado. Alex guardaba un diario. Esta magistral novela autobiográfica...
Author
Series
Wiek miłości wiek nienawiści volume tom 4
Publisher
Prószyński Media sp. zo.o
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
"Anna. Gorzki smak miodu" to czwarty tom w książkowej serii "Wiek miłości, wiek nienawiści". Tytułowa bohaterka, po skończonej wojnie, ma niemal trzynaście lat. Obecnie pozostaje w Tilsti, w domu krewnych jej biologicznego ojca. To oni nadali jej nowe imię: Elise. Choć nie dzieje jej się krzywda, otoczenie dziewczynki dokonuje wszelkich starań, by przejęła jak najwięcej niemieckich wzorów i całkowicie zapomniała o przeszłości,...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1945, the German-Polish border: A mother and her little boy are torn apart, and with the Nazis on one side and Soviet forces approaching on the other, so begins an unforgettable tale of courage, heartbreak and motherhood in wartime. In the icy grip of winter, Emma is about to face the most impossible decision--stay to search for her missing son, or get her daughter to safety. In the last days of the Nazis, she's desperately trying to escape Poland,...
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Last promise: They meet by chance in Tuscany. Eliana is an American painter trapped in a loveless marriage. Ross is a man seeking renewal after a terrible tragedy.
Danger zone: "I love you, I have gone to get Jimmy. Don't follow me, Sam, please." When Sam Cady discovers his son missing and his wife's cyrptic note, he finds himself thrust into a dangerous world where nothing is as it seems. Not even his wife.
Not a sparrow falls: She's been living...
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