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"Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother's belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? Why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before? . . . [This book is based on a] true story of the crafting of the heart, against all odds, within the confines of Auschwitz, and of the women of immeasurable resilience, courage, and loyalty who risked their lives for Sorale's mother, their friend"--Provided by publisher.

In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.

The days and nights of the Rabinovitch family--a rabbi, his wife, and their nine children who live in the Jewish quarter of Lublin, Poland, in the 1920s--are filled with joy, adventure, and ritual, but the biggest adventure occurs one summer when the oldest daughter Adina is betrothed to a young man from Warsaw. Based on the history of the author's Nana Nomi.

"It's 1926 and the Jews of Krakow know that the hatred and violence directed at them can only end in tragedy. Young Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but how can he give up his position as a celebrated clarinetist with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra? When Ann hears that the world-renowned violinist Bronislaw Huberman is auditioning Jewish musicians for a new orchestra in Palestine, she makes a bold move to try to save her family. But will it be enough?--Back cover.

In Poland in the 1940s, twins Chaim and Gittel rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto, escape through forests, and the horrors of a concentration camp.

"New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France..."--Provided by publisher.

The author recalls her experiences in a Nazi Jewish ghetto in Rohatyn, Poland with her mother and sister in 1941. As they waited to see what their fate would be, she was able to escape with a false birth certificate because she did not look Jewish. Her mother and sister remained behind, and ultimately perished. She found work in a hospital in Germany under her assumed identity and managed to elude Nazi capture. After the war, she immigrated to the United States with her husband.

When seven-year-old Anna's father went away on November 6 in 1939, he never returned. Alone in Poland during World War II, Anna is taken under the care of strange man whose name she never knows, but who she calls Swallow Man. Alongside a Jewish man named Reb Hirschl, the three try to survive the horrors of hiding away as a war rages around them and danger lurks at every turn.

"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.

A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.