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1	Lily's Crossing more books like this by Patricia Reilly Giff add to wishlist Lily is looking forward to her upcoming summer vacation at the beach, but then World War II arrives, and everything changes. Her father goes overseas to fight, and Lily is left at home with her bossy grandmother. Her concern for her father's safety is made more difficult by the fact that her best summer friend is moving away, and the only kid in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Forged in Fury more books like this by Michael Elkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
3	The Gypsy Moon more books like this by Gilbert Morris add to wishlist Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country, but she is stunned when the new commander of the Nazi occupation forces turns out to be Col. Erik Raeder, a man she had nearly agreed to marry when she spent time with her uncle in Berlin. Gabrielle teams up with a handsome OSS agent to rescue her uncle ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $9.99!
4	Odyssey more books like this by John Bierman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	In Love with Jerzy Kosinski more books like this by Agate Nesaule add to wishlist This is a first novel from the author of "A Woman in Amber". From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O'Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. "In Love with Jerzy Kosinski" is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped readers of Nesaule's award-winning memoir, "A Woman ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.65! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 more books like this by Hanna Diamond add to wishlist Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, the French government abandoned the city and its people, leaving behind them an ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Flee the Captor more books like this by Herbert Ford add to wishlist The story of John Henry Weidner, a hero of history's greatest holocaust, who saved the lives of 800 Jews, more than 100 Allied aviators, and many others who fled Nazism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Border of Truth more books like this by Victoria Redel add to wishlist At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father's secret history -- in particular, his flight as a 17-year-old Holocaust refugee aboard a ship denied entry into America. The more she learns about her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	My Mother's Sabbath Day more books like this by Chaim Grade, Channa K Goldstein (Translator), Inna H Grade (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.08! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
10	Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer more books like this by Wolfgang W E Samuel add to wishlist An inspiring sequel to the acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee's Story, this book follows Samuel's life from his years as a teenage German refugee to America where he eventually became a U.S. Air Force colonel. see all copies from $15.85! new only from $28.04! \| first editions \| SVS
11	When Grownups Play at War: A Child's Memoir more books like this by Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda, Sarah Cummins (Translator) add to wishlist When Gownups Play at War Is The Unique, compelling memoir of a young Polish Jewish girl during the Second World War. In an authentic voice based on first-hand experience. Gruda gives us a rare perspective on the life of a family fleeing from Pland to Uzbekistan. Her account lays bare the trials of coming of age amidst the constant upheavals of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.66! \| SVS
12	Uprooted and Transplanted: A Sudeten Odyssey from Tragedy to Freedom, 1938-1958 more books like this by Hanns F. Skoutajan add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98!
13	British Policy and the Refugees, 1933-1941 more books like this by Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt, Charmian Brinson (Foreword by) add to wishlist In the summer of 1940, when much of Europe had fallen under German domination, the British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of large numbers of people who had fled from Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year - at a time when the role and the fate of the refugees was a burning issue - is a ... see all copies from $33.81! new only from $42.66! \| SVS
14	The River of Angry Dogs: A Memoir more books like this by Mira Hamermesh, Fay Weldon (Introduction by) add to wishlist Mira Hamermesh is an award-winning film maker, painter and writer. This moving memoir gives a vivid account of her remarkable life. As a young Jewish teenager she escaped the horrors of German-occupied Poland with only her natural creativity, a rebellious spirit and a talent for good fortune to rely on. Of the millions of words written about WWII, ... see all copies from $2.09! new only from $18.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Tales of Innocence and Experience: Grandmothers and Granddaughters: A Very Special Relationship more books like this by Eva Figes add to wishlist This captivating memoir explores the relationship between the author and her young granddaughter, whose questions about Figes's upbringing unwittingly opens a door into the author's privileged childhood in Germany. But when the Nazis rose to power, Figes and her family fled to England, leaving her own grandparents behind. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $2.54! \| first editions
16	Pawns of Yalta: Soviet Refugees and America's Role in Their Repatriation more books like this by Mark R Elliot add to wishlist see all copies from $6.94! new only from $19.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	German Boy: A Refugeeas Story more books like this by Wolfgang W E Samuel, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Foreword by) add to wishlist These reflections on life in postwar Germany by the son of a Luftwaffe officer begin in 1945, when the family fled to a refugee camp after the collapse of the Nazi regime, and ends with their immigration to the United States, where the author became a career Air Force officer. see all copies from $8.54! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
18	All the Children Were Sent Away more books like this by Sheila Garrigue add to wishlist An eight-year-old British girl experiences loneliness and fear when she and many other children are evacuated to Canada during World War II. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Assignment: rescue. more books like this by Varian Fry add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	Flight and Rescue more books like this by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum add to wishlist In an extraordinary new volume, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals details of the famous 'Sugihara rescue' during the summer of 1940, when foreign policy and human compassion converged for a fleeting moment. While the world's political landscape was in turmoil, foreign envoys of Japan and the Netherlands forged an unlikely ... see all copies from $7.70! new only from $27.66! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Like Leaves in the Wind more books like this by Rita Blattberg Blumstein add to wishlist This is the story of Rita Blattberg, a Jewish child from Krakow, from when the Germans invade Poland in 1939, to her deportation to the Soviet Union. It documents her time there and the colourful cast of characters that she met before returning to a hometown inhabited by ghosts, and leaving Poland to start a new life in the West. This account ... see all copies from $8.92! new only from $12.95!
22 view cover	Eva's War: A True Story of Survival more books like this by Eva Krutein add to wishlist see all copies from $2.19! new only from $58.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada During World War II more books like this by Walter W Igersheimer, Ian Darragh (Editor) add to wishlist After escaping from Nazi Germany with his family, Igersheimer was completing his medical studies when he was caught in the panic that led to the interment of 30,000 German and Italian citizens living in Britain. They were placed behind barbed wire and treated as enemies. Many of the Jewish refugees were then sent to prisons in Canada, but the ... see all copies from $18.75! new only from $33.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Refugees in Hungary: Shelter from Storm During World War II more books like this by Karoly Kapronczay add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.04! \| first editions
25 view cover	Scream Quietly more books like this by Elizabeth Carlson add to wishlist Do you believe in miracles? What would you do if you were caught in the throws of a devastating war as terror surrounds you? Where would you turn? Who would help you? In September of 1939, Hitler's Nazi war machine swept through Poland, leaving a trail of destruction, torment, death, and unspeakable horror. Innocent civilians found themselves ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $13.07! \| signed copies \| SVS

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