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  • Darkness Hides the Flowers

    A True Story of Holocaust Survival

    by Jerry L. Jennings, Ida Hoffmann Firestone ...
    Darkness Hides the Flowers is the true-life adventure story of a Jewish teenage girl running from the Gestapo. An artistic girl, who dreams of being a pianist, young Ida is abruptly thrown into the wilderness of rural France and must survive alone. Ida’s narrative is illustrated with her original paintings and the poems that she wrote to endure an ordeal of loneliness, fear, abuse and starvation. ... Read more

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  • A Train in Winter

    An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    “How can you do this work if you have a child?” asked her mother.“It is because I have a child that I do it,” replied Cecile. “This is not a world I wish her to grow up in.”On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Village of Secrets

    Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands, including many Jewish children, who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir of the Holocaust

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A breathtakingly beautiful memoir by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an astonishing addition to the library of literature on the HolocaustMarceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested along with her father in the Vichy-ruled part of France. Her mother and siblings managed to escape arrest. On their arrival at the camps, the two were separated--her father sent to Auschwitz, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • When Paris Went Dark

    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

    by Ronald C. Rosbottom ...
    The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II." When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 resonated eerily with 2017 America. . . . This book is a compelling, sobering warning about the dangers of complacency in the face of intolerance."―Celeste Ng, Wall Street JournalOn June fourteen, 1940, ... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Nine

    The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

    by Gwen Strauss ...
    **THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" ―Wall Street JournalThe Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris.**"I almost didn't finish this book. Not ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Les Parisiennes

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

    by Anne Sebba ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author explores WWII Paris history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn't—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France

    by Sarah Lew Miller, Joyce B. Lazarus ...
    A Holocaust survivor chronicles growing up in occupied France while hiding from the Nazis during World War II in this moving memoir."Today's reader will find it hard not to be changed . . . by this haunting memoir." —Betsy Sterman, author of Saratoga Secret"Unpretentious and straightforward . . . a captivating read." —Dr. Mary-Ann Stadtler-Chester, Framingham State UniversityHiding in ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Young Survivors

    by Debra Barnes ...
    What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart.When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Mirador

    Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky By Her Daughter

    Translated by Marina Harss ...
    by Elisabeth Gille ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalSeparated from her mother—the famed author of Suite Française—during World War II, Irène Némirovsky’s daughter offers a “nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman” in a series of memoirs that reimagine her mother’s life (The Washington Post)Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Journal of Helene Berr

    by Helene Berr ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, ... Read more

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  • Dora Bruder

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePatrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about Dora and why ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD