Gretchen Abernathy
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English
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"Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver—a...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII"--
"January 1939. Isabel Duęas, pregnant and alone, is desperate to escape her beloved Barcelona when its invaded by Franco's troops at the end of the Spanish Civil War. After marching for days in the dead of winter, Isabel eventually crosses the border into France and stumbles, weak and afraid for her baby, to...
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