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Sky

a true story of resistance during World War II : illustrated with photographs, documents, and letters from the author's collection
1996
The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.

Touch wood

a girlhood in occupied France
1988
In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Ren?e, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Ren?e and her sister escape to the shelter of a convent in Normandy.

The diary of Anne Frank

1956
Presents a dramatization of the diary of Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl who recorded her thoughts and experiences while in hiding from the Nazis for two years before being discovered and taken to a concentration camp.

The lily cupboard

1992
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.

For freedom

the story of a French spy
2005
A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi-occupied France, worked as a spy for the French Resistance while training to be an opera singer.

The butterfly

2000
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.

The greatest skating race

a World War II story from the Netherlands
2004
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.

The upstairs room

1972
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

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