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  • The secret of Gabi's dresser
    Auteur:
    Kacer, Kathy
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    For ages 8+. The heroine, Gabi, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. She describes her community before the Nazi occupation and the events that unfolded afterwards...
  • The night spies
    Auteur:
    Kacer, Kathy
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    Based on real events and real characters! It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to unknown fates. But she, her mother and...
  • Tenuous threads / One of the lucky ones
    Auteur:
    Abrams, Judy, Felsenberg Marx, Eva
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    Two Jewish girls born six months apart – Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia – are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly...
  • Survival Kit
    Auteur:
    Sermer, Zuzana
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    An only child, fifteen-year-old Zuzana Sermer did what she could to protect her father and ailing mother when the Nazis set up a fascist regime in her native Slovakia in 1939. Four years later, after fleeing to the supposed safety of...
  • From generation to generation
    Auteur:
    Tomasov, Agnes
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    Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Slovakia’s Low Tatra Mountains in the fall of 1944, in constant danger from the Germans occupying nearby villages, fourteen-year-old Agnes Grossmann and her family made the daring decision to...
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