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3) Sarah's key
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St. Martin's Press
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
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"In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money -- and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he...
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"Based on a true story, this novel of WWII illuminates the power of hope in the face of hatred and prejudice. As the shadows of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party fall over Paris, Madeleine Levy draws on the spirit of her WWI hero grandfather and defends herbeloved France in the only way she knows how: helping Jewish children escape the impending horror. Using her education, patience, and charm, Madeleine undertakes deadly missions, saving Jewish lives...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 494 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist's vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter's pursuit of a haunting question: what had almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
Relates the story of Le Cambon-sur-Lignon, a small, remote mountain village whose inhabitants banded together to save thousands from the Gestapo during World War II.
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An inspiring documentary that tells the story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler's rise to power. After keeping silent for almost 60 years, Marthe now shares the extraordinary story of how she managed to beat the odds and fight the Nazis as a spy after her family fled to the south of France, and a sister was sent to Auschwitz.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it?s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their...
11) The two of us
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a young Jewish boy is sent by his parents to the rural home of an elderly couple and forms an unlikely bond with the anti-Semitic old man.
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Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
323 pages
Description
"Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers....
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Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now published for the first time, 63 years after her death. In 1942, H?lène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student at the Sorbonne, started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris--about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the 'boy with the grey eyes,' about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect...
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Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"As the daughter of one of Turkey's last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court physician. In defiance of their families, they marry, fleeing to Paris to build a new life. But when the Nazis invade France, the exiled lovers will learn that nothing can break the bonds of family. For after they learn that Selva is but...
15) The butterfly
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler....
17) The two of us
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a young Jewish boy is sent by his parents to the rural home of an elderly couple and forms an unlikely bond with the anti-Semitic old man.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Cafae de Flore, whose habitues...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
20) The two of us
Series
Criterion collection volume 388
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
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