Nielsen, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nielsen 2018Rimmer, 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: When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC SAVAdler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLRimmer, Kelly
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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Place a hold to request this item.Savit, Gavriel.
Summary: When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAVGeffen, Adiva
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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeffenKelly, Martha Hall
Summary: "On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELBalson, Ronald H
Summary: "Lena Woodward, an elderly woman, enlists the help of both lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to appraise the story of her harrowing past in Nazi occupied Poland. At the same time, Lena's son Arthur presents her with a hefty lawsuit under the pretense of garnering her estate--and independence--for his own purposes. Where these stories intersect is through Lena's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALRimmer, Kelly
Summary: Since age nine, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now engaged, she waits for his return from college in Warsaw so they can marry. But when the Nazi occupation takes hold, he disappears.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Balson, Ronald H.
Summary: "A "fixer" in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later-by the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras-Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Balson, Ronald H.
Summary: "The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013