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Milkweed

a novel
2004
The story--set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw--of heartbreak, hope, and survival experienced by a young orphan.

The girl who survived

a true story of the Holocaust
2010
Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with courage and the help of strangers Bronia became one of the youngest survivors.

Poland

1986
Surveys the history of Poland, its customs, politics, daily life, and cultural achievements.

Poland

1992
The realities of contemporary Polish society are interwoven into this glimpse at the daily life of an eleven-year-old girl living with her family in the city of Poznan.

Manwolf

1981
Only when he finally reaches adolescence does a boy, living in medieval Poland, realize people think he is a werewolf.

Poland in pictures

1972
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, culture, and people of the seventh largest country in Europe.

The Polish Americans

2004
Reviews the reasons why millions of Poles have immigrated to America, what their passage was like, the kind of jobs most found, communities they formed, and the discrimination they faced.

Escape into darkness

the true story of a young woman's extraordinary survival during World War II
1991
The war-time saga of a young woman who endured the loss of her family, her community, and her very identity during World War II.

On the other side of the gate

a novel
1975
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish couple when they are confined to a ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

Eastern Europe

1987
Describes the natural resources, peoples, histories, economics, and governments of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

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