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The boy in the striped pajamas

a fable
2008
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.

Anne Frank

the diary of a young girl
1978

Mischling, second degree

my childhood in Nazi Germany
1990
The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.

Crossing the borders of time

a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed
2012
Journalist Leslie Maitland tracks down her mother Janine's first love, a Frenchman who was separated from Janine when her German-Jewish family fled Europe from Marseille in 1942.

We are witnesses

five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust
2009
Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War II.

Clara's story

1993
The author describes her own and her family's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent in hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.

In my enemy's house

2000
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.

Odyssey

1984
Recounts the voyage of 500 Jews aboard the Pentcho, a decrepit paddle steamer, from Bratislava in May 1940.

The wedding in Auschwitz

an incident
2009
Rudi Friemel, a soldier with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, is captured and eventually sent to Auschwitz where he petitions and is granted permission to marry his sweetheart Marga, the mother of his child.

Hidden letters

2008
Collects the optimistic letters of Philip "Flip" Slier, a Dutch Jew who was sent to a labor camp in April of 1942 and killed in the Holocaust, with documents, photographs, posters, and information gathered from interviews and eye-witness accounts. Includes bibliographical references and an illustrated index.

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