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August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver—a...
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Based on the true story of one ordinary woman who risked everything to reunite Jewish children with the true names they hadn't even realized they'd lost.
Based on the true story of one ordinary woman who risked everything to reunite Jewish children with the true names they hadn't even realized they'd lost.
France, 1992. Law student Valérie Portheret is in the middle of researching her thesis on the Klaus Barbie trials when she stumbles across...
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ELmaesto narra la vida de Janusz Korczak, una exitosa educadora y autora que dedicó su vida a los huérfanos polacos. Un hombre que dirigía dos orfanatos en el gueto de Varsovia y se inspiró para crear la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño de 1959.
Combinando ficción con datos históricos y testimonios personales de una manera magistral, Mario Escobar lleva al lector a un poderoso viaje que describe con gran detalle a los judíos polacos que...
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"The true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII"--
"January 1939. Isabel Duęas, pregnant and alone, is desperate to escape her beloved Barcelona when its invaded by Franco's troops at the end of the Spanish Civil War. After marching for days in the dead of winter, Isabel eventually crosses the border into France and stumbles, weak and afraid for her baby, to...
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