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• Rose Under Fire

  Wein, Elizabeth

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  When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

• The Librarian of Auschwitz

  Iturbe, Antonio

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  Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.

• Mapping the Bones

  Yolen, Jane

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  In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.

• What the Night Sings

  Stamper, Vesper

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  Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, Gerta has lost her family and everything she knew. Without her Papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and onto living her life.

• They Went Left

  Hesse, Monica

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  Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.

• 28 Days

  A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

  Safier, David

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  In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.

• Girl in the Blue Coat

  Hesse, Monica

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  In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Light Between Us

  A Novel of World War II

  Fukuda, Andrew

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  In 1935, Alex is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie , is a girl. In spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Once

  Gleitzman, Morris

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  After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

• Under the Iron Bridge

  Kacer, Kathy

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  It's 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city's Jews, but even Paul's parents think he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brushmaker's Daughter

  Kacer, Kathy

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  Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt - a German who risked his life to…Read moreRead more of this annotation