The Librarian of Amsterdam

Name: The Librarian of Amsterdam
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by Uri Dushy Book 2 in the Art of Resistance series.

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Amsterdam under German occupation. Sophie Weinstein, a Jewish librarian erased from official records, uses her knowledge of paper, type and ink to forge identity documents for the Dutch resistance. When three-year-old Hannah is placed in her care, false papers and canal routes become the means of hiding a child whose survival depends on Sophie appearing to be her mother.

As the Gestapo searches for the forger known as the Librarian, Sophie must balance Hannah’s safety against the danger of exposing a wider rescue network. Decades later, the discovery of a satchel of wartime documents forces a younger woman to reconstruct Sophie’s choices and the lives concealed behind the false names created during the occupation.