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A troubled peace

2010
Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.

The Butcher of Lyon

the story of infamous Nazi Klaus Barbie
1983

Outwitting the Gestapo

1993
Lucie Aubrac's account of her participation in the French Resistance during World War II.

A pocket full of seeds

1973
During World War II in occupied France, a young Jewish girl returns from an overnight visit with a friend to find her family has disappeared.

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.

Honey cake

2008
David and his family live in Denmark during the Nazi occupation until September 1943, when their neighbors help smuggle them to Sweden to escape Hitler's orders to send the Danish Jews to concentration camps.

Hide and seek

1995
A young Jewish girl living in Holland tells of her experiences during the Nazi occupation, her years in hiding, and the aftershock when the war finally ends.

Waiting for Anya

1997
Jo and Benjamin devise an elaborate escape plan to save a band of Jewish children in Vichy, France during World War II.

The little riders

1993
An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism.

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