Liesel next sees Max being marched towards the concentration camp at Dachau. When Hans publicly gives bread to an old Jew being sent to a concentration camp, Max must leave, and Hans is drafted into the military at a time when air raids over major German cities were escalating in terms of frequency and fatality. Liesel and Max become close friends, and Max writes Liesel two stories about their friendship, both of which are reproduced in the novel. Keeping a promise he made to the man who saved his life, Hans agrees to hide a Jew named Max Vandenberg in his basement.

She is seen stealing a book from the burning by the mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann, who later invites Liesel to read in her library. At a book burning, Liesel realizes that her father was persecuted for being a Communist, and that her mother was likely killed by the Nazis for the same crime. Liesel befriends a neighborhood boy, Rudy Steiner, who falls in love with her. Hans is a gentle man who brings her comfort and helps her learn to read, starting with a book Liesel took from the cemetery where her brother was buried. On their way to Molching, Liesel's younger brother Werner dies, and she is traumatized, experiencing nightmares about him for months. Narrated by Death, The Book Thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the small town of Molching in 1939, shortly before World War II.

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