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The grand mosque of Paris

a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
2009
Tells the story of how Muslims rescued, hid, and transported Jews during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and a list of recommended books and films.

Behind the secret window

a memoir of a hidden childhood during World War Two
2003
The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lw?w, Poland, during World War II.

Raoul Wallenberg

the man who stopped death
1993
Traces the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and then mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.

Clara's story

1984
The author describes her own and her family's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent in hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.

The secret of Priest's Grotto

a holocaust survival story
2007
Relates the true story of how several Jewish families survived the Holocaust of World War II by hiding in the caves of western Ukraine for over three hundred days.

Yellow line

2005
In a small Canadian community, the line separating Natives and whites begins to blur for Vince as finds himself falling for a First Nations girl.

Rigoberta Mench?

defending human rights in Guatemala
1999
A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, tracing her childhood and youth as a coffee picker and maid in Guatemala, and discussing her efforts to secure rights and better living conditions for the Quiche-Mayan people.

Lily Ren?e, escape artist

from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer
2011
A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?e Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

Genocide in Darfur

2009
Chronicles the events that led to the mass killings of thousands of Africans in Sudan's Darfur region, and efforts by many around the world to bring an end to it.

L'chaim!

to Jewish life in America! : celebrating from 1654 until today
2004
Text, photographs, and illustrations trace the history of the Jews in the United States from colonial times to the present.

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