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Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.

The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.

Examines the life of pediatrician and Holocaust victim Janusz Korczak and describes what it was like to live in the Warsaw Ghetto.

A ship on the Baltic Sea manages to rescue a little dog that was carried seventy-five miles on a sheet of ice.

Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising.

"Wojtek was just an orphaned bear cub . . . when a group of teenaged Polish soldiers, many of whom were orphans themselves, took him into their ranks during World War ll. Wojtek quickly became a beloved and important member of the Polish II Corps. Together with his brothers in arms, Wojtek helped his friends turn the tide of World War II"--Amazon.

"Introduces readers to the mysterious Crooked Forest in Poland and the debate about what caused this antural phenomenon"--Amazon.