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  • Alias Anna

    A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

    by Susan Hood, Greg Dawson ...
    A Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable!A Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist!The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son).She ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Judgment Before Nuremberg

    by Greg Dawson ...
    When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz and Dachau. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war crime trial against the Nazis was in this tiny Ukrainian town, which is fitting, because it is where the Holocaust actually began. Judgment Before Nuremberg is also the story of Dawson’s personal journey to this place, to the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Alias Anna

    A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

    by Susan Hood, Greg Dawson ...
    Narrated by Aimée B. Dawson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son).She wouldn’t be Zhanna. She’d use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive.</p... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Before All Memory Is Lost

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