 | Sisters in the Resistance by Margaret Collins Weitz
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $4.95 FRENCH Thousands of women joined the underground struggle to liberate Occupied France. Book based on interviews with 70 survivors.
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 | Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $1.67 CZECH Almost 15,000 children perished at Terozin concentration camp. Czech inmate Friedl taught them art to distract from their terror. Artwork and text.
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 | New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964 (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture) by Janet Hart
Buy used from: $2.37 GREEK Activism in the National Liberation Front (EAM) appealed to women as means of freedom from Fascism and traditional Patriarchy.
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 | In the Hands of My Enemy: A Woman's Personal Story of World War II by Sigrid Heide
Buy used from: $17.99 NORWEGIAN Sigrid, an active anti-Fascist, endured Nazi brutality and concentration camps, but her strong Faith sustained her.
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 | Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.24 BELORUSSIAN Famous Jewish Partisan group saved thousands of men, women, and children by dealing harshly with local collaborators.
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 | Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines (Part I: Inna Konstantinova; Part II: Masha Poryvayeva and Part III: Zoya Kruglova Baiger) by Nikolai Vissarionovich Masolov
Buy used from: $16.00 RUSSIAN During the 900-day siege, numerous women joined the Partisans. Inna, whose father was a Partisan leader, kept a journal until she was captured and executed.
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 | In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall
Buy used from: $21.73 UKRAINIAN A band of Jews survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in the sewer system! They were aided by sympathetic Ukrainian and Polish citizens.
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 | Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers by Kazimiera J. Cottam
Buy used from: $29.99 SOVIET Women from every corner of the USSR participated in the armed forces and partisan movements during the Great Patriotic War.
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 | Women and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945 (Women and Modern Revolution Series) by Barbara Jancar-Webster
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $16.19 YUGOSLAV "In no other country have women played such a decisive role in achieving victory over an occupying enemy..."
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 | Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943-45 (Women and Modern Revolution) by Jane Slaughter
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $11.19 ITALIAN Women joined the difficult Partisan struggle in the northern mountains, as combatants, military commanders, sabateurs, courriers, and nurses.
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 | Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 POLISH Teenaged Alicia eluded Nazis, collaborators, and "banderovcy" to survive war-torn Poland and assist other Jewish refugees.
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| Mission Improbable by Beryl E. Escott
Buy used from: $4.69 ENGLISH Squadron Cmdr. Escott's tribute to her 15 women aviators with RAF Special Ops; their training and operations in the French Resistance.
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 | In the Lion's Mouth: Gisi Fleischmann & the Jewish Fight for Survival by Joan Campion
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $13.68 SLOVAK Biography of an Auschwitz martyr. Jewish heroine Gisi established "Working Group" of Holocaust rescuers, raised funds for Europa Plan.
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 | Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth McIntosh
Buy used from: $1.46 AMERICAN Women agents of (pre-CIA) Office of Strategic Services operated the underground railroad for extraction of downed Allied pilots from behind enemy lines.
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 | Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust (Judaic Studies Series)
Buy new: $28.50 / Used from: $13.67 JEWISH Oral histories of twenty five daring resistance fighters and Holocaust rescuers.
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| Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova, 1891-1945 by Sergei Hackel
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $10.99 GENTILE Biography of "unorthodox" Russian Orthodox nun who resisted the Nazis, helped Jewish people, and was martyred at Ravensbruck.
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 | Hannah Szenes by Maxine, Rose Schur
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $1.88 HUNGARIAN Martyred heroine fled to Palestine when Germany invaded, but returned as a freedom fighter and Holocaust rescuer. Diary and poetry.
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 | Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz by Richard Newman
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $0.93 AUSTRIAN Rose, a daughter of a famous family of musicians, assembled a 40-woman orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Playing for Nazi command bought time and survival.
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 | Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 LITHUAINIAN Susie was only 8 years old when the Nazis occupied Vilnius. By using all her wits and resourcefulness, her mother helped her survive concentration camps and a winter death-march.
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 | The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance by Marion Yorck von Wartenburg
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $18.99 GERMAN Female judge, wife of co-founder of anti-Fascist Kreisau Circle, involved in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler.
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