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English
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In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.
Warsaw, 1942. Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she learns the entire ghetto is to be "liquidated" she joins a group of young people who are planning an uprising against the Nazi forces. For twenty-eight...
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Language
English
Description
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who mind their own business and don't stand out from the crowd .... until 1939, when crisis strikes. The Nazis invade Poland and start to persecute the Jews. Proving shelter to Jews has become a death sentence, and yet Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny two room house in Sokal, they cleverly hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish...
23) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
24) Uprising
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
25) Shosha
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring young writer in Warsaw, during the 1930s, finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women.
27) The certificate
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. It's 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub Szapiro commands respect, revered as a hero by the Jewish community. Outside, he instills fear as he muscles through Warsaw as enforcer for a powerful crime lord. Murder and intimidation have their rewards. He revels in luxury, spends lavishly, and indulges in all the pleasures that barbarity offers. For a man battling to be king of...
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Language
English
Description
"Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate ... She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought ... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they...
31) Not nothing
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.
32) Then
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
xi, 162 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the experiences of a Polish Jew, Moishe, who with his parents, brother, and sister, struggles to survive the Nazi invasion and Holocaust.
35) Once
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, a division of Penguin Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of World War II, Karolina's spirit magically travels from the war-torn Land of the Dolls to the Krakow, Poland, shop of the Dollmaker, Cyryl, and together they take great risks to save their Jewish friends.
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