In Poland in the 1940s, twins Chaim and Gittel rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto, escape through forests, and the horrors of a concentration camp.
"New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France..."--Provided by publisher.
The author recalls her experiences in a Nazi Jewish ghetto in Rohatyn, Poland with her mother and sister in 1941. As they waited to see what their fate would be, she was able to escape with a false birth certificate because she did not look Jewish. Her mother and sister remained behind, and ultimately perished. She found work in a hospital in Germany under her assumed identity and managed to elude Nazi capture. After the war, she immigrated to the United States with her husband.
When seven-year-old Anna's father went away on November 6 in 1939, he never returned. Alone in Poland during World War II, Anna is taken under the care of strange man whose name she never knows, but who she calls Swallow Man. Alongside a Jewish man named Reb Hirschl, the three try to survive the horrors of hiding away as a war rages around them and danger lurks at every turn.
"At the beginning of World War II, Karolina's spirit magically travels from the war-torn Land of the Dolls to the Krakow, Poland, shop of the Dollmaker, Cyryl, and together they take great risks to save their Jewish friends"--OCLC.
A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy. Based on a true story.
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.
