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Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism during the Holocaust
64 pp.
| Putnam |
October, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-399-23434-9$$15.99
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4-6
Growing up in 1930s Amsterdam, Jaap Penraat sees the steady curtailment of the Jews' rights; after the 1940 Blitzkrieg, Jaap, now twenty, turns his architectural drafting skills to perfecting false identity and travel papers for his Jewish friends. The illustrations are as action-packed as the text. Text and pictures both have a boyish enthusiasm that nevertheless acknowledges the real human cost of the war.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2001