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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...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust-one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, facsimilie ; 24 cm
Description
"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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
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Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
241 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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....
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Publisher
Merry Dissonance Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek "Joe" Rubinsztejn onto a crowded, open-air truck. The next day, several around him were dead. From there, things got worse for young Joe-much worse. Joe arrived at Auschwitz on April 30, 1942. Now, in his nineties, Joe reveals how he survived several of the most notorious concentration camps when so many others perished. His is a remarkable narrative-a...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
511 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, chiefly color ; 23 cm
Description
"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...
9) 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.
10) The pianist
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (150 min.) : sound, (color) ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Cafae de Flore, whose habitues...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical table ; 20 cm
Description
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...
13) The confessor
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated- and covert operative and art restorer Gabriel Allon must get to the bottom of a plot that reveals the truth about the Catholic Church's response to the Holocaust. Now, as Allon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the lives of millions will be changed forever- and one man will become expendable...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
482 pages ; 20 cm
Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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xvii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A historical investigation and family memoir intertwines the narrative of Anne Frank with the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, her protector and closest confidante in the Annex, who risked her life to protect the Franks and formed a deep friendship with Anne.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages, 33 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"The inspirational true story of how 22-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust"--
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
220 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates at the end : portraits and illustrations, ; 23 cm
Description
"'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...
Author
Publisher
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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
20) The blood years
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.
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