โ Aten, K
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ SILVER DRAGON Books BY RC
๐ English
โ 225 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Children of the stars
โ Scribed by Mario Escobar
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson Inc
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 367 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- France
- ISBN
- 0785232990
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the second World War.
August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Velodrome d'Hiver--a massive, bleak structure in Paris where thousands of France's Jews are being forcibly detained.
Jacob and Moses know they must flee in order to survive, but they only have a set of letters sent from the south of France to guide them to their parents. Danger lurks around every corner as the boys, with nothing but each other, trek across the occupied country. Along their...
โฆ Subjects
Adult
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