1940-1945, german occupation

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1940-1945, german occupation

Twenty and ten

1978
Twenty school children, living in a refuge in France, hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II and vow never to betray them.

The good liar

1999
Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.

Room in the heart

2003
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.

Lost in America

2005
Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.

Anne Frank and me

2001
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.

A traitor among us

1998
In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village.

A coming evil

1998
Thirteen-year-old Lisette Beaucaire is resentful when her parents send her from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1940 to live with her aunt in the country, but she barely has time to get bored when she learns the farm is a hiding place for several Jewish and Gypsy children, as well as a ghost from another time of historical conflict who proves to be an invaluable ally.

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.

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.

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