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"A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to...

"From the bestselling author of Born Survivors, a novel inspired by the powerful true story of a man who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz. Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts ... Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. In the shadows of the smokestacks was a wooden hut where children sang, staged plays, wrote poetry, and learned about the world. Within those...

A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances.

Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in...

"Jacob y Moises Stein viven con su tIa Judit en París, hasta que en agosto de 1942 se desata la gran redada contra los judIos extranjeros. Sus padres, conocidos dramaturgos alemanes, están ocultos en la Francia libra, pero, antes des que su tía logre enviarles al sur, los gendarmes los detienen y los llevan al Velódromo de Invierno, donde más de cuatro mil niños, cinco mil mujeres y tres mil hombres tuvieron que subsistir sin comida ni agua...

"Una historia intensa y hermosa, ambientada en la Bélgica ocupada de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que nos muestra que incluso en los momentos más duros existe un espacio para la esperanza. Bélgica, diciembre 1944. Los alemanes han iniciado una contraofensiva en las Ardenas. Renée, una niña judía de siete años que ha sido acogida en una granja cuando huía de la persecución nazi, es confiada a unos soldados americanos. Sin embargo, al quedarse...

"1944. 'I have to go away, my darling. Please, be brave, stay alive, for me.' Her mother's voice breaks. The little girl tries to stop the forbidden tears from falling, as the train takes her mother, and she is left alone in the camp... Berlin, six years later. When Hanni Winter shows her new husband the heartbreaking photos she captured during the war, his reaction is unexpected. His face white, Freddy can't take his eyes off the photo of a young...

"Esta es la apasionante historia de una mujer que dedicó su vida a devolver la identidad a ciento ocho niñ judíos, desaparecidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una joven decidida a mostrar la verdad. Lyon, 1992. Una estudiante tiene que enfrentarse a un país y a una universidad que quieren pasar página y dejar atrás el pasado, pero el hallazgo de una vieja caja con las fichas de unos niños judíos, en paradero desconocido desde el verano...