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Anne Frank

2020
A brief biography in graphics of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazi's in a secret room in Amsterdam during World War II, and who had kept track of her very short life in a diary before she and her family were discovered.

A scarf for Keiko

2019
"In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1942, after Sam's Japanese neighbor, Keiko, is sent to an internment camp with her family, he makes a special effort to send her a gesture of friendship"--OCLC.

The Man in the High Castle

2017
An alternative history in which Germany and Japan jointly occupy the defeated United States twenty years after World War II.

The Spy with the Red Balloon

2019
Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.

Asylum

a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
2016
"[Relates] Austrian Jewish writer ... [Moriz Scheyer's] flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France ... With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an ... account of the events and experience of persecution"--Provided by publisher.

Diario

2016
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

The backyard secrets of Danny Wexler

2021
"Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, investigates a local kid's disappearance, a possible UFO invasion, and the Bermuda Triangle, all while dealing with his community's anti-Semitism"--Provided by publisher.

Lisa of Willesden Lane

a true story of music and survival during World War II
2021
"The true story of a girl who traveled on the Kindertransport during World War II and her experiences during a time of war"--Provided by publisher.

The summer of lost letters

2022
The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.

This rebel heart

During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest, Csilla must decide whether to fight for her deeply flawed country or let it burn to the ground after her late parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated.

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