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  • Vladimir Krajina : World War II hero and ecology pioneer
    Author:
    Drabek, Jan
    Summary:

    In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those...
  • The white space between
    Author:
    Sands Brodoff, Ami
    Summary:

    A family’s story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the serenity of a small New Jersey town, and in the memory of Jana – a woman finally asked to bear witness. Far...
  • The wake of forgiveness
    Author:
    Machart, Bruce
    Summary:

    In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth. Fifteen years later, guilt-stricken Karel puts his family's fortunes on the line in a horse race against a powerful Spanish patriarch.
  • Knocking on every door
    Author:
    Voticky, Anka
    Summary:

    As Hitler’s army swept into Czechoslovakia in 1939, Anka Voticky, a twenty-five-year-old mother of two, her husband, Arnold, and her family fled halfway around the world to an unlikely refuge—the Chinese port of Shanghai. Estranged from...
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