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Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in KrakĆ³w, Poland. Her life changed forever. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to conventāwhere the Nazis finally caught upā¦
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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.Ā Hereās a glimpseā¦ through the eyes of a real childā¦of what survival means, and of those who helped her achieve it.
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