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Resistance

2005
In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement.

Anne Frank and me

2002
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.

The boys from St. Petri

1994
In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.

Brave deeds

how one family saved many from the Nazis
2008
Recounts how Frans Braal, a resistance worker in Holland, and his family risked their own lives to protect Dutch Jews from Nazi troops during World War II, using the story of a fictional child to tell the true story of the family's bravery.

Darkness over Denmark

the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
2000
An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.

The upstairs room

1987
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

The secret room

2000
Two girls who are friends become separated in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

Code name Kris

1990
After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement. Sequel to "Lisa's War.".

When the soldiers were gone

1999
After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding.

The good liar

1999
Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.

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