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My life with the Lincolns

2010
In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Anne Frank

her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
2009
A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others lived in hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942 until their capture in August 1944.

Elly

my true story of the Holocaust
2009
The true story of fifteen-year-old Elly, who, along with her mother and brother, were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II-Birkenau concentration camp and how she alone survived.

Tropical secrets

Holocaust refugees in Cuba
2009
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

What world is left

2008
Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.

After the train

2009
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.

Hitler's canary

2007
Based upon the true experiences of the author's father, tells the fictional story of ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend, Anton, who participated in the Danish Resistance during World War II.

The locket

surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
2008
Eleven-year-old Galena, a Russian immigrant begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City's factories after a terrible fire claims the lives of over 140 workers at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Angel girl

based on a true story
2008
Herman Rosenblat, sent to a Nazi work camp at the age of sixteen, had encounters with a local girl who brought him apples every day through the fence, and years after being released from the camp Herman meets a familiar looking older girl named Roma.

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