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In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.

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Auf der Flucht vor den Nazis muss Hanna Mai ihre siebenjährige Tochter Malka allein zurücklassen.

1943: Die jüdische Ärztin Hanna Mai lebt mit ihren Töchtern Minna und Malka an der polnisch-ungarischen Grenze. Als die Deutschen auch hier mit den Deportationen beginnen, müssen die drei überstürzt fliehen. Sie wollen zu Fuß über die Karpaten, doch Malka wird krank und kann nicht mehr weiter. Schweren Herzens entschließt Hanna sich, das Kind bei Bauern zurückzulassen, die ihr versprechen, das Mädchen nachzubringen, sobald es sich erholt hat. Aber es kommt alles anders: Malka wird entdeckt und in ein Getto verfrachtet. Dort entwickelt die Kleine ungeahnte Kräfte, die sie Hunger, Kälte, Krankheit und Einsamkeit überstehen show more lassen - bis ihre Mutter schließlich unter großen Gefahren zurückkehrt, um sie zu retten.
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Mirjam Pressler was born on June 18, 1940 in Darmstadt, Germany. She is the author of several novels that have won awards in her native Germany and also received high praise from critics after being translated into English. In Malka and Halinka Pressler focuses on young Jewish protagonists who have been forced by fate to endure the Holocaust, show more while in Shylock's Daughter she returns readers to fifteenth-century Italy as she attempts to answer haunting questions surrounding the motivations of characters in a popular play by William Shakespeare. While receiving notice for her novels, Pressler is most well known for her work revising the diaries of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, and she is considered an expert on Franks's life and writings. She made the finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 in the author category. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Malka; Minna
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Poland
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World War II
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LJCRS Book Fair Selection 5767

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Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Young Adult
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833.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901945-1990
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PZ7 .P921965 .MLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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