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Author Iperen, Roxane van, author.

Uniform Title Hooge nest. English
Title The sisters of Auschwitz [large print] : the true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory / Roxane van Iperen ; translated from the Dutch by Joni Zwart.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Large Print Non-Fiction  LP 940.53 Ipe    ---  Available
Edition First Harper Large Print edition.
Description xi, 510 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-510).
Summary Relates the story of sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper of Amsterdam, who joined the Dutch resistance and created a clandestine safehouse in the woods, which became an important Jewish hiding place and underground center, before being captured by the Nazis and put on the last train to Auschwitz along with Anne Frank and her family.
Subject Brilleslijper, Janny.
Brilleslijper, Lien.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Jewish families -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Sisters -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Large type books.
Biography.
Added Author Zwart, Joni, 1979- translator.
ISBN 9780063119338 (pbk. : lg. print)
0063119331 (pbk. : lg. print)

 
    
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