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Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story

by Malka Drucker, Michael Halperin · 1993 · 128 pages

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Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore.

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Genre
historical fictionworld war IIwar and military
Setting
world war II20th centurypoland
Subject
history
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
short · 128 pages

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