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A German Boy and a Jewish Girl: A Short Story
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is a work of historical fiction.
Set in Germany before and during the Second World War, A German Boy and a Jewish Girl follows the quiet friendship between two children growing up in a country that is slowly learning how to divide itself.
What begins as an ordinary bond-shared routines, familiar streets, small moments of trust-becomes increasingly strained as laws change, neighbors disappear, and silence replaces what once felt normal. The world around them reshapes itself, not all at once, but through gradual restrictions and unspoken fear.
The novel is told with restraint, focusing not on spectacle or violence, but on the way history enters everyday life and alters it permanently. It explores innocence confronted by ideology, the cost of belonging, and the lasting impact of choices made too early to fully understand.
This is not a story of heroism or escape.
It is a story of memory, separation, and the lives history does not allow to unfold as they should.
A German Boy and a Jewish Girl is a quiet, tragic work of historical fiction about childhood, loss, and the long shadow left by a world that moved forward without looking back.
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