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1) Diario
Author
Series
Plaza y Janés El ave fenix volume 166
Language
Español
Formats
Description
El diario íntimo de la adolescente judía, publicado por su padre Otto después de la guerra, recuerda los horrores del Holocausto y sigue siendo más actual que nunca. El diario de Ana Frank es una de las obras más leídas en el mundo, se han vendido unos 30 millones de ejemplares y se ha traducido a más de 70 idiomas. En su diario, Ana Frank describe sus pensamientos y sentimientos en el aislamiento forzado con su padre, su madre y su hermana,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms "the Annex" in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
5) Tamar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
9) Artifice
Author
Language
English
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Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Language
English
Description
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Despite the many works devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years-- and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. Pankoke and a team of investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-- some never before seen-- and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the...
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"World War Two has come to Holland--and so have Patrick and Beth. When the cousins hide at a farm with Dutch Resistance workers, they are given a secret mission: smuggling a Jewish baby to her mother"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is inescapable. Though she lives a quiet life with her mother and older sister, Elif, in their small town of Haarlem, they are no strangers to heartache, having recently suffered an immeasurable loss. And when the Nazis invade the Netherlands, joining the Dutch resistance with Elif offers just the atonement Lien craves. Trained to shoot by their late father, the...
15) The assault
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation
Author
Publisher
Golden Falls Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reflections of a self-described Dutch curmudgeon operating a German restaurant in a down-at-the-heels logging town on the southern Oregon coast. Interwoven with his observations on matters cultural and culinary are images and family stories of World War II Holland.
19) The key is lost
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen fulfilled their harrowing missions as spies, saboteurs, and Nazi assassins with remarkable courage, but their stories have remained...
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