Jella Lepman and her library of dreams : the woman who rescued a generation of children and founded the world's largest children's library

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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 travelling library of books for children that evolved into the International Youth Library in Munich.

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