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Midwife of Auschwitz

Poignant novel based on an extraordinary Polish heroine who delivered 3,000 babies in the horror...
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

(For high school students, teachers, and adults). In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer...
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The Peasant Prince by Alex Storozynski

(For high school students, teachers, and adults) Kosciuszko came to America one month after the...
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Wearing the Letter P by Sophie Hodorowicz-Knab

Young Polish Women Deported to Germany as Forced Laborers to Support Hitler’s War Effort Among...
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The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1945 by Richard Lukas

(For high school students, teachers, and parents) In recounting the human suffering of World War...
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Your Life Is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 by Ewa Kurek

(For high school students, teachers, and adults) Only in Poland did the Germans maintain a...
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One Star Away by Imogene Salva

(For high school students, teachers, and adults) Imogene Salva re-constructs the emotional climate that surrounded...