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1940-1945, german occupation

Moving pictures

2010
As curator Ila Gardner fights to protect the museum's art collection from the Nazis, she finds her private relationship with officer Rolf Hauptmann played out in a public power struggle as they are torn between their love for one another and the responsibilities they feel towards their jobs.

The sixth lamentation

a novel
2003
Terminally ill Agnes decides it's time to tell her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for 50 years. Agnes's story merges with that of Eduard, an old man seeking sanctuary at Larkwood Priory in Suffolk.

Bad faith

a forgotten history of family, fatherland and Vichy France
2006
Chronicles the life of Louis Draquier de Pellepoix, a Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner of Jewish Affairs", focusing on his efforts to eliminate the Jews during World War II, with information on his background, public persona, acts of violence, and the reason he was never charged for his crimes.

Suite fran?aise

a novel
2007
In 1940, several families and individuals are thrown together as they flee Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion and struggle to stay alive and grieve for the life they once knew.

A troubled peace

2010
Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.

The hiding place

2006
A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi's during World War II.

Hidden letters

2008
Collects the optimistic letters of Philip "Flip" Slier, a Dutch Jew who was sent to a labor camp in April of 1942 and killed in the Holocaust, with documents, photographs, posters, and information gathered from interviews and eye-witness accounts. Includes bibliographical references and an illustrated index.

Waiting for Anya

1997
Jo and Benjamin devise an elaborate escape plan to save a band of Jewish children in Vichy, France during World War II.

Don't fence me in!

an American teenager in the holocaust
1981
Recounts the life of an American Jewish boy during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

When the soldiers were gone

2001
After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding.

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