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Swartz, 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

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 SWA

Farrell, Mary Cronk

Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LER

Rosen, Michael

Summary: "'They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.' Thats all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasnt enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROS

Margolin, Jamie

Summary: "The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: GO, Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320.0835 MAR

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