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Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.

During the winter of 1939, after Nazis invade Poland, Danusha and her family flee to Krakaow where her mother, Anna, secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion--a place where she comes to a startling revelation about a mother's loveand protection. During the winter of 1939, after Nazis invade Poland, Danusha and her family flee to Kraków where her mother, Anna, secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion--a...

Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.

"Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la tarea de tatuar los números en las víctimas que - como él - eran encerradas en Auschwitz, usó la mínima libertad que su rol le permitía para intercambiar...

"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave hisflourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...