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My mother's secret

based on a true Holocaust story
2013
Chronicles the lives of two Jewish families hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to save them.

The glass mountain

tales from Poland
An anthology of Polish folktales.

In my hands

memories of a Holocaust rescuer
2016
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

The boy in the striped pajamas

2016
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Ordinary men

Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland
1992
Drawn from postwar interrogations of 210 former members of the battalion, the author lets them speak for themselves aobut their role in the Final Solution.

Milkweed

2003

The old brown suitcase

a teenager's story of war and peace
2008
Fourteen-year-old Slava, having miraculously survived the Holocaust, moves to Canada with her parents and sister where she struggles to adjust to the challenges of being an immigrant, a Jew, and a teenager, while at the same time dealing with her memories of the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Anna and the Swallow Man

2016
When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.

The girl in the red coat

a memoir
2003
A memoir by Roma Ligocka focusing on her childhood, surviving World War II, encountering postwar anti-Semitism and communist repression, and struggling for artistic freedom.

Once we were brothers

2009
When wealthy Chicago philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, he hires attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, and to her he reveals his Polish families history involving an abandoned child named Otto Piatek.

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