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Crabtree groundbreaker biographiesLevi, Lia
Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEVI LEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People LeviDown, Susan Brophy.
Summary: Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Polands Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust. By the time of her death in 2008, Irena had been honored by the governments of Poland and Israel, Pope John Paul II, and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SENSwartz, Sarah Silberstein
Summary: "Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2022