No Pretty Pictures
Book description
Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Kraków, Poland. Her life changed forever. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to convent—where the Nazis finally caught up…
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Five years old when the Nazis invaded her homeland of Poland, Anita Lobel spent the war years in hiding. Her memoir is intimate and suspenseful and even occasionally funny. Here’s a glimpse… through the eyes of a real child…of what survival means, and of those who helped her achieve it.
From Lois' list on war through the eyes of children.
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