1917-1943

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1917-1943

The immortals

the World War II story of five fearless heroes, the sinking of the Dorchester, and an awe-inspiring rescue
2021
The story of the heroic actions of chaplains George Fox, Alexander Goode, John Washington, and Clark Poling of the Dorchester and steward's mate Charles W. David Jr. of the Comanche in the aftermath of a German submarine attack during World War II.

It's my whole life

Charlotte Salomon : an artist in hiding during World War II
2022
"A . . . middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in the south of France, and which has been called a painted parallel to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and an early graphic novel. In 1943, she entrusted her collection of paintings to a friend. In October of that year, she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death upon arrival. [This book] covers Charlotte's . . . life from her childhood and art school days to her time as a refugee in Nazi-occupied France, where she created the largest single work of art created by a Jew during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
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