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A Fable
by John Boyne
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by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Published Aug 2017
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by Affinity Konar
Published May 2017
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by Monica Hesse
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsAmsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a...
by Stephanie Kuehn
Published Mar 2016
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by Dasa Drndic
Published Mar 2015
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsThe Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp.
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Published Sep 2008
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by Markus Zusak
Published Sep 2007
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by Jean-Jacques Greif
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsWhen Moshes emigrates to Paris in the 1930s, it means a new life: A decent job, a lovely young wife, and a hobby as an amateur boxer. Until the day he is rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. There he is tortured, starved, asked to entertain Nazi soldiers by boxing against dying prisoners. Moshe wants to survive without killing his comrades, but ...
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Published Apr 2001
Read Reviews"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence." An amazing, courageous, uplifting autobiography about a brave teenager who was not afraid to get involved.
by Lois Lowry
Published Feb 1998
Read ReviewsWinner of the 1990 Newbery Medal. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account of the evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark to save them from being detained and then sent to the death camps.
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