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Catholics Fiction Christian converts from Judaism Fiction Concentration camp escapes Fiction Concentration camp inmates Fiction France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Nuns Fiction Women Europe Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Women FictionRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROSSteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: A compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata's enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEEscobar, Mario
Summary: In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of policemen break into her house. The policemen want to haul away her gypsy husband and their five children. The police tell Helene that as a German she does not have to go with them, but she decides to share the fate of her family. After convincing her children that they are going off to a vacation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018