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The devil's arithmetic / by Jane Yolen.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PZ7.Y78 D4 1988

Overview

Summary: Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Yolen, Jane.
Published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Kestrel, 1988
Locale: Poland

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 0670810274
Physical Description: 170 pages ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jews--Fiction. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction. Nazi concentration camps--Fiction. Internment camps--Fiction. Fiction.

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