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"At the beginning of World War II, Karolina's spirit magically travels from the war-torn Land of the Dolls to the Krakow, Poland, shop of the Dollmaker, Cyryl, and together they take great risks to save their Jewish friends"--OCLC.

"To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: assume a fake identity, intentionally get captured and sent to the new camp, and then report back to the underground on what had happened to his compatriots there"--Jacket flap.

Tells the life story of groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie in simple text and pictures.

Memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. The first volume takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz.

Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

Describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented music for the piano and new ways of playing it.

A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager.

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, risked her life as she helped more than four hundred Jewish children escape from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Recounts the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Union, is separated from his family, and undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.

The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.