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Title:
The librarian of Auschwitz
Author:
Iturbe, Antonio, 1967- author.
Added Author:
Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin, translator.
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

©2017
Physical Description:
423 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781250211682

9781627796187
Abstract:
Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.
General Note:
"First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012"--Title page verso.

"Based on the true story of Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus"--Jacket.

Maps on liner papers.
Personal Subject:
Kraus, Dita, 1929--Juvenile fiction.
Subject Term:
Nazi concentration camps -- Juvenile fiction.

Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Juvenile fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Juvenile fiction.
Geographic Term:
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Young adult fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction

War fiction.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Translated from the Spanish.
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