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When the World Was Ours

Liz Kessler

Ages: 12+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Aladdin

ISBN: 978-1-5344-9965-2

Keywords: WW II, Holocaust, friendship

On the verge of World War II, three 9- year-old German friends - two Jewish and one a future Nazi - find their lives torn apart.