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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams
Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams
the Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World's Largest Children's Library
Paterson, Katherine,
Paterson, Katherine,
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This is the story of Jella Lepman, who escaped the Nazi regime in Germany and returned after the war to build a traveling library of books for children that evolved into the International Youth Library in Munich.
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Deng, Sally,
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Lepman, Jella.
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich, Germany) — History.
Children's librarians — Germany — Munich — Biography.
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San Francisco : Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books, [2025], ©2025
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