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Publisher
BBC Video Ltd
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"'Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state' is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their stories are brought to life through the innovative use of archive footage, dramatic recreations of key ... moments, and their ... testimony"--Container label.
25) Remembering: voices of the Holocaust : a new history in the words of the men and women who survived
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland -- some still in their teens -- became the nerves of a wide-ranging...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of Herberts Cukurs, a fugitive Nazi from Latvia who had served in her grandfather's unit, and modern efforts to exonerate him for his past actions, the author explores both her family story and the legacy of the post-Holocaust era in Europe, and how that legacy extends into the present.
Author
Series
Horowitz family volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Following a priceless violin across five decades, this stunning debut novel tells the story of orchestra conductor Rafael Gomez who, inspired by the playing of an aspiring violin virtuoso who suddenly refuses to play another note, will do anything he can to change that.
Author
Publisher
Wicked Son
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide--but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation. They need adults with the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
32) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies....
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A novel of the Holocaust based on the author's own experiences chronicles the ordeal of one family, forced from their home and struggling to cope with the destruction, deprivation, and death around them, from the perspective of a single survivor. The tragic tale of the Lustig family doctor Leopold; his wife, Caroline; their children, Zerlina and Paul; and Caroline's sister, Ida who are sent to the walled city of Ruhenthal after authorities label them...
34) Danzig passage
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
When life in Nazi Germany becomes dangerous for Jewish residents, two families must decide how to flee the country to reach safety and freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history-the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. This gripping, multifaceted tapestry is woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history. Five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of resistance and uplift....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, Gerta has lost her family and everything she knew. Without her Papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and onto living her life. Gerta meets Lev, a fellow teen survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine. With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had, and a return to the life of music she thought she lost forever, Gerta must choose...
37) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005, c1990
Language
English
Description
When Leah and Shimon arrive in Jerusalem they find themselves pitted in a struggle against a sinister darkness which could threaten their safety in the new homeland.
39) The cage
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
1997, c1986
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
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