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-- Button men.2018., Adults, Minotaur Books Call No: FIC GRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s"--
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20190910., Adults, Harper Call No: FIC CLA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.
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By Plain, Belva2004., Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC PLA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great retail companies.