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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, facsimilie ; 24 cm
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"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London—reveals how the idea of (3z(Bindustrial murder(3y(B is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most...
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
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241 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"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....
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Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
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511 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, chiefly color ; 23 cm
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"The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the...
5) Trajectory
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical table ; 20 cm
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Las unicas pistas que tuvo Ariana Neumann de nina sobre la vida de su padre el empresario Hans Neumann; antes de llegar a la Venezuela que lo adoo eran una foto vieja de sus abuelos paternos, un documento de identidad con un nombre falso y la pasion de su papa por coleccionar y arreglar relojes. Todo cambio cuando Hans murio y le dejo a su hija una caja llena de cartas y documentos que seran el punto de partida para que Ariana se convierta la detective...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
220 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates at the end : portraits and illustrations, ; 23 cm
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"'Te escribo desde el campo de trabajo de Birkenau, donde me encuentro ahora. Estoy sano, trabajo y espero noticias tuyas.' Esta es una carta que uno de los presos judíos escribió para tranquilizar a sus familiares y ocultar la horrible realidad de los campos de concentración. Esta fachada es parte de la Brief-Aktion, 'Operación Cartas,' un intercambio epistolar entre los presos de Auschwitz y sus allegados que buscaba encubrir las atrocidades...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
abril de 2023.
Physical Desc
539 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations and portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"La verdadera historia de Rudi Vrba, el primer judío que escapó de Auschwitz y trató de advertir al mundo de las atrocidades nazis. En abril de 1944, Rudolf Vrba se convirtió en el primer judío en escapar de Auschwitz. Contra todo pronóstico, tras esquivar por poco las balas alemanas, él y su compañero de fuga escalaron montañas y cruzaron ríos para alcanzar la libertad. Vrba quería advertir a los últimos judíos de Europa del destino...
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Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
During World War II, in the Terezin concentration camp, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling that nearly eighty years later has six hundred descendants around the world that are thriving, including the one planted at New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
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"Alemania, 1939. Al inicio de la guerra y tras la muerte de su madre, Hanna Rombauer es enviada a vivir con sus t̕os. Inmersa en una vida de lujo que nunca esper̤, pronto es comprometida con un oficial de las SS; sin embargo, la independencia y tenacidad que su madre amorosamente le inculc̤ son inapropiadas para la futura esposa de un oficial en ascenso. Sin consultarle, Hanna es enviada a una elegante villa en las afueras de Berl̕n, donde deber̀...
11) Artifice
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
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