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Diamant, Anita. Lavigne, Michael. Murphy, Louise Norman, Howard A. Russell, Mary DoriaLavigne, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVDiamant, Anita.
Summary: Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIAMurphy, Louise
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSNorman, Howard A.
Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998