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We Were the Lucky Ones

Georgia Hunter - Viking
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. . . . A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment." - Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris WifeNAMED...
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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

Tilar J Mazzeo - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A New York Post Best Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar...
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The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survivalSixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being...
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

Sarah Helm - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after...
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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum - Harcourt
Format: Print book

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph:...
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Eric Metaxas - Thomas Nelson; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face...
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The Girl From the Train

Irma Joubert - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakb Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakb fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's...
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The Auschwitz Escape

Joel C Rosenberg - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

ECPA 2015 Christian Book Award Finalist!2014 finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards!A terrible darkness has fallen upon Jacob Weisz's beloved Germany. The Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, has surged to power and now hold Germany by the throat. All non-Aryans -- especially...
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Once We Were Brothers

Ronald H. Balson - St. Martin's Griffin; Library Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust.Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi...
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Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust

Susan D Bachrach - Little, Brown
Format: Paperback

Draws on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's collections of artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories to teach young people about this period of history.
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Jerusalem Vigil

Bodie Thoene - Viking
Format: Hardcover

In the first volume of a momentous new crossover saga set in Jerusalem, a top-selling author team that dazzles with historical fiction in the tradition of James MichenerWith more than 6.5 million books in print, Bodie and Brock Thoene have dominated the Christian fiction market for over...
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Scholastic Nonfiction; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters!...
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