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The little riders

An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism.

V2

a novel of World War II
2020
"It's November 1944. Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides in the hunt for the saboteur. Their twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign, one of the most epic and modern but least explored episodes of the Second World War. Their destinies are on a collision course"--OCLC.

Vincent van Gogh

he saw the world in vibrant colors
2021
A picture book biography of the life of Vincent van Gogh. Includes a time line of his works as well as related art appreciation activities.

Girl in the blue coat

"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--Provided by 5ublisher.

Vincent van Gogh

Looks at the life and career of nineteenth-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

The journey back

2007
After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family.
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Anne Frank

2008
Chronicles the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Germany during World War II, focusing on her family's efforts to hide from the Nazis by living in their neighbor's attic, and drawing on excerpts from Anne's journal to recount her family's experiences.

Van Eyck

An illustrated guide to the work of Flemish artist Jan van Eyck.

Winter in wartime

2020
Michiel and his village join the resistance in German-occupied Holland during World War II.

An interrupted life

the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
Presents the diaries and letters--many of which were written in the Nazi transit camp Westerbork--of Etty Hillesum, a Jewish woman from Holland who died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
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