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xv, 264 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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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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264 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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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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112 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm
Language
English
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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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