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Describes the flight of Hedy Engle and her family as they left Hungary in 1941 and made a perilous journey across Europe to escape the Nazis and finally enter the United States from Bermuda.

Two explorers survey caves in the Western Ukraine and relate the story of how an extended Jewish family, fleeing persecution by the Nazis, lived for two years in a large cave, Popowa Yama, and survived the war.

"In a time when people were ruthlessly persecuted and killed, some were able to make it through alive. Whether it was thanks to lucky twists of fate or the loving sacrifices of others, they lived to tell their stories, which serve as reminders to never allow such a tragedy to happen again. These are the unbelievable true stories of six children, in their own words, of how they survived one of the darkest times in human history"--

Personal narratives in alternating chapters of a Jewish woman & a former ardent member of the Hitler Youth, who grew up a few miles from each other

Information about the Frank family is combined with photographs, first-person interviews, and journal entries from children who faced Nazi persecution.

"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--

"A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--