Query: War novels set in prison in Poland
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Once (novel)
The Island on Bird Street
The Devil's Arithmetic
The History of Love
The Zone of Interest
The Painted Bird
The Kommandant's Girl
Schindler's Ark
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Jacob's Rescue
Evidence from documents: Once (novel): It is about a Jewish boy named Felix who lived in Poland and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage in which had stayed at for 3 years and 8 months.
The Island on Bird Street: Alex (the main character) is an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in a Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II with his father and their friend, Boruch.
The Devil's Arithmetic: '''''The Devil's Arithmetic''''' is a historical fiction time slip novel written by American author Jane Yolen and published in 1988. The book is about Hannah Stern, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York, and is sent back in time to experience the Holocaust. During a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported back in time to 1941 Poland, during World War II, where she is sent to a concentration camp and learns the importance of knowing about the past.
The History of Love: n Poland, approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years. In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares about. Leo promises he will never love anyone but her.
The Zone of Interest: '''''The Zone of Interest''''' is the fourteenth novel by the English author Martin Amis, published in 2014. Set in Auschwitz, it tells the story of a Nazi officer who has become enamored with the camp commandant's wife. The story is conveyed by three narrators: Angelus Thomsen, the officer; Paul Doll, the commandant; and Szmul Zacharias, a Jewish Sonderkommando.
The Painted Bird: in Poland: The book's reception in Poland was far from uniform.
War novels: '''''The Painted Bird '''''is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Kommandant's Girl: '''''The Kommandant's Girl''''' is a 2007 novel by Pam Jenoff. It is set during World War II and the Holocaust period, and describes the story of nineteen-year-old Emma Bau.
Schindler's Ark: Keneally's meetings with Pfefferberg and his research and interviews of Schindler's acquaintances are detailed in his 2007 book ''Searching for Schindler: A Memoir''. In October 1980, Keneally went into Pfefferberg's shop in Beverly Hills to ask about the price of briefcases. Learning that Keneally was a novelist, Pfefferberg showed him his extensive files on Schindler, kept in two cabinets in his back room. After 50 minutes of entreaties, Pfefferberg was able to convince Keneally to write the book. Pfefferberg became an advisor, accompanying Keneally to Poland, where they visited Kraków and other sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ''Schindler's Ark'' to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written."


After the publication of ''Schindler's Ark'' in 1982, Pfefferberg worked to persuade Steven Spielberg to film Keneally's book, using his acquaintance with Spielberg's mother to gain access.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: in Poland: while visiting family in Poland
War novels set in prison: The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas''''' is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne.
Jacob's Rescue: based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust.