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xiv, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"A memoir by a young woman who travels to France to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious and irrevocable estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different -- until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. From her time in the children's block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the camps and on into her adulthood, Dita's powerful memoir sheds light on an incredible life -- one that...
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal, whose magnetic personality and spirit have remained undimmed despite living through one of history's darkest chapters. One of the oldest living survivors of the Holocaust, she celebrates her 98th birthday when she reveals to her loved ones profound memories of her incredible survival like never before.
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"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger -- devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend -- takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself...
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"Author Bernice Lerner follows Glyn Hughes, a British officer and doctor, and Rachel Genuth, a Romanian Jewish girl, as they moved (or were moved) across Europe in the final brutal year of World War II. Although the two never met, Hughes's commitment to saving as many prisoners of Bergen-Belsen as possible saved Rachel's life. This book is the first to pair the story of a Holocaust survivor with that of a concentration camp liberator"--
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xxviii, 309 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
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Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors -- theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities -- from sixteen countries on six continents reflect on how the memories transmitted to them have affected their lives. -- Provided by publisher.
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231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation -- that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust -- Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white...
11) Nana
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of an Auschwitz survivor who spent her life fighting intolerance. Born in Poland, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant survived Ravensbruck, Malchow and Auschwitz, where she was the forced translator for the "Angel of Death," Josef Mengele. Maryla dedicated her life after the war to publicly speaking about her survival to younger generations.
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258 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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English
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"The captivating memoir of a spirited and glamorous young Jewish fashion designer who survived the Holocaust, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein"--
In the summer of 1942 Franci Rabinek-- designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws-- arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It was the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the...
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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals--both Jews and Nazis--associated with it. The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals,...
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"In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even the camps at large--so called Blockälteste and Lagerälteste...
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112 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm
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"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
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x, 419 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage...
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ix, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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"In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping...
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xi, 388 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked...
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