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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMWitterick, J. L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WITJenoff, Pam
Summary: Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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Summary: "Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred. A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHERimmer, Kelly
Summary: In 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek hasn't given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. But in befriending Sara, a neighbor, Elzbieta is propelled into resistance against the Nazis. Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls and to the plight of the Gorka family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENKraus, Otto B.
Summary: Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASpinelli, Jerry.
Summary: Set in Nazi-occupied Poland just before the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Spinelli's first historical novel tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival though the eyes of a young orphan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight inthe Warsaw Uprising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2021
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Summary: "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...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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Adiva Geffen] 2018