Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
I am David	Anne Holm	david person	OL12341065W
The Gypsy Moon (The House of Winslow #35)	Gilbert Morris	Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of …	OL14854714W
The journey that saved Curious George	Louise Borden	In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among the…	OL15162160W
The Last Brother	Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand,Nathacha Appanah	Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan	OL15667661W
Crossing the borders of time	Leslie Maitland	Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalists vivid depiction of a world a…	OL16342722W
A city of broken glass	Rebecca Cantrell	In Rebecca Cantrell's A City of Broken Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported f…	OL16585654W
Witness to the Holocaust	Eisenberg, Azriel Louis	Here, in one definitive volume, are over one hundred spellbinding eyewitness accounts of a brutal period in history that claimed the lives of millions of innocent victims. After years of painstaking …	OL16785979W
Rescuing the children	Deborah Hodge	Discusses the efforts of the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries before the start of World War II.	OL18143559W
Jewish exile in India, 1933-1945	Anil Bhatti	Papers presented at a symposium held in Jawaharlal Nehru University, 15-16 Mar. 1995.	OL18335833W
Generation exodus	Walter Laqueur	"Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. …	OL18391504W
They dared return	Patrick K. O'Donnell	A never-before-told World War II story of Jewish soldiers on a dangerous mission within the Third Reich--a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge.	OL18809468W
My Heart in a Suitcase (Library of Holocaust Testimonies)	Anne L. Fox	"This is the story of a child, uprooted from a loving and protected home, who was sent to strangers in a strange country to fend for herself. In this memoir Anne L. Fox has written about her childhoo…	OL1936669W
Ein Buch für Hanna	Mirjam Pressler	Als de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbreekt, vlucht Hanna (14) naar Denemarken. Enkele jaren later vallen de Duitsers Denemarken binnen en wordt Hanna naar het concentratiekamp Theresienstadt gedeporteerd. …	OL19951732W
Heretics	Leonardo Padura	"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refuge…	OL20049956W
Two suns in the sky	Miriam Bat-Ami	In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that they do not belong together.	OL2040581W
The odyssey of the ship with three names	Renato Barahona	"Singular history of the S.S. Kefalos, a tramp steamer crewed mainly by exiled Spanish Republicans that, among its many lives, transported arms and refugees from Mexico and the Balkans to the fledgin…	OL23186063W
The whirlwind	Carol Matas	Ben flees Nazi Germany only to find himself in a battle for his life and his soul.	OL24063214W
Bessie's pillow	Linda Bress Silbert	"May this pillow bring you peace. So reads the pillow entrusted, in 1906, to 18-year-old Boshka Markman as she prepares to board a train in Vilna, Lithuania. One of hundreds of thousands of Jewish im…	OL24439170W
The children of Willesden Lane	Mona Golabek	Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Jewish music…	OL5964637W
Hello, America	Livia Bitton-Jackson	The book is the third and final book in a series detailing the writer's experience growing up as a Jew in Hungary during the time of the Holocaust. The progression of events from there is that she, E…	OL8199547W