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The borrowed house by Hilda Van Stockum - Knosit

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The borrowed house

by Hilda Van Stockum

Young AdultHistorical Fiction

1975

During World War II a young German girl, member of the Hitler Youth, joins her parents in occupied Amsterdam and comes to realize that the war is about more than national pride and destiny; for some it means starvation, separation from loved ones, and gas chambers.

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