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Summary: Tells the story of how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Holocaust Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's death camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chosen Books 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 TENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5349 TENStrauss, Gwen
Summary: "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 STRHelm, Sarah.
Summary: Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HELTen Boom, Corrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1997
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 Ten Boom 1997Loftis, Larry
Summary: A New York Times best-selling author writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II-at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023