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Anne & Emmett

Anne & Emmett

Thomas Fensch

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New Century Books and E-Books
Año de edición:
2023
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Historia
ISBN:
9798985683967
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Two teenagers, living worlds apart . . .A Jewish girl, with her parents, hidingfrom the Nazis in Amsterdam. . .A Black boy, living outside Chicago . . .The girl, studiously writing a diary, weekafter week, month after month, which she kept secret,even from her parents. . .The Black boy, wanting to visit distant relatives in Mississippi. . .How the girl and her family were finally captured by the Nazis and she how died in a Nazi death camp at 15 . . .How the Black boy from Chicago was lynched inMississippi at 14 . . .How the publication of the girls’s diary, found after her death, and how the decision by the boy’s mother, about his funeral, changed the world.

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