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2007., Young Adult, Knopf Call No: YA ZUS Edition: 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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©2024., Adult, Random House Large Print Call No: LP STE Edition: First large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly. After tragedy strikes and her mother dies, Sophia becomes increasingly involved in the resistance, attending meetings of dissidents and helping however she can. Circumstances become increasingly dangerous and personal when Sophia assists her sister’s daring escape from Germany, as Theresa flees with her young husband and his family. Her father also begins to resist the regime, secretly healing those hiding from persecution, only to have his hospital burned to the ground. When he is arrested and sent to a concentration camp, Sophia is truly on her own, but more determined than ever to help. While working as a nurse with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, Sophia continues her harrowing efforts to transport Jewish children to safety and finds herself under surveillance. As the political tensions rise and the brutal oppression continues, Sophia is undeterred, risking it all, even her own freedom, as she rises to the challenge of helping those in need—no matter the cost." --publisher's website.
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c2008., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: FIC BOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In January 1945, eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, her lover, and a Jew who escaped a train bound for Auschwitz face the elements and witness the horrors of war as they travel west in hopes of reaching the British and American lines.
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2022., Adult, Grand Central Publishing Call No: FIC HOK Edition: First Grand Central Publishing edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughter's hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officer's hand was at Liese's throat before she saw him move. 'I can kill you easily, then I can kill your daughter.' He relaxed his grip a little. 'Or perhaps I could kill her first?' England, forty years later. When Karen Cartwright is unexpectedly called home to nurse her ailing father, she goes with a heavy heart. The house she grew up in feels haunted by the memory of her father's closely guarded secrets about her beautiful mother Elizabeth's tragic death years before. As she packs up the house, Karen discovers an old photograph and a stranger's tattered love letter to her mother postmarked from Germany after the war. During her life, Karen struggled to understand her shy, fearful mother, but now she is realising there was so much more to Elizabeth than she knew. For one thing, her name wasn't even Elizabeth, and her harrowing story begins long before Karen was born. It's 1941 in Berlin, and a young woman called Liese is being forced to wear a yellow star...
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By Kerr, Judith[1972, c1971]., 5.1; 5-8, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Call No: Y KER Edition: [1st American ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.