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English
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Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl: a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. Sera crosses paths with William Hanover, and together they slowly unravel the story behind the painting's subject: Austrian violinist Adele Von Bron, daughter to a high-ranking member of the Third Reich...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders as liberators; but soon the Nazis start rounding up Jewish Ukrainians, and Krystia is faced with a terrible choice--risk everything by helping her Jewish friends and neighbors to hide, or save herself and her family by doing nothing.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where she's determined to provide expectant mothers and their unborn children a refuge amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Desperate...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Hendrik, the son of a fisherman, notices his Jewish friends being ostracized. When he realizes the danger that Hitler's policies ultimately mean for his friends and their families, he hatches a plan to smuggle them out of the country by boat.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping split-time novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker woman who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrenees, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Elias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More...
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