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Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland) Fiction Jewish women Poland Warsaw Fiction Jews Poland Fiction Nazis Juvenile fiction Sisters Fiction Warsaw (Poland) History 20th century Fiction Warsaw (Poland) History Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 Fiction Warsaw (Poland) History Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 Juvenile fiction World War, 1939-1945 Jews Poland Warsaw Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Poland Warsaw FictionSummary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Pianist 2003Hesse, Karen.
Summary: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIENielsen, Jennifer A
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIEAlexander, V. S.
Summary: It's not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister, Stefa. There is another gulf--between the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind in Warsaw, and her new, independent life in London. But as autumn of 1940 draws near, Germany begins a savage aerial bombing campaign in England, killing and displacing tens of thousands. Hanna, who narrowly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022