concentration camps

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Torn thread

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

The boy in the striped pajamas

a fable
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.
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Desert exile

the uprooting of a Japanese American family
The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.
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Burning kingdoms

After Morgan Stockhour and her friends escape Internment, she discovers that life on the ground is not safer, and that, perhaps, going over the edge has led her to madness.

The harmonica

Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration camp keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders him to play.

The flag with fifty-six stars

a gift from the survivors of Mauthausen
Presents a narrative description of the events of May 6, 1945, when members of the U.S. Army marched into the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II, and were presented with a makeshift United States flag by a group of prisoners of war.

The librarian of Auschwitz

2018
Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
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Anne frank

2019
In 1942, a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank received a diary from her parents for her thirteenth birthday. Today, millions of people have read the compelling, heartfelt diary entries Frank recorded while living in hiding to escape Nazi persecution.
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