Many of Matas's books have dealt with the Jewish experience during World War II.
Lisa also known as Lisa's War, and Jesper also known as Code Name Kris, focus on the experience of Jews in Denmark.
After the War and The Garden are postwar novels in terms of their time setting, but they both deal with the experiences of an adolescent survivor of the Holocaust who does not find the peace that the war's end is expected to bring.
Greater Than Angels and In My Enemy's House offer two other alternative experiences of European Jews during the war years. In the former, a number of Jewish adolescents are saved by the heroic actions of French Protestants. For readers who want to explore this topic further, Milton Meltzer's Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles.....
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