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1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and...
3) Heretics
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"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
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The Klein family is slowly but surely losing everything they hold dear - or ever took for granted - as Hitler's anti-Jewish laws take hold in 1930s Berlin. In desperation, fifteen-year-old Rosa is put on a Kindertransport train out of Germany to begin a new life in England. In a foreign country, barely able to make herself understood, she struggles to find a way to rescue her parents. Overtaken by the war, however, they gradually lose touch. Now Rosa...
5) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the kindertransport : a memoir of music, love, and survival
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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272 p. ; 22 cm.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
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1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
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"As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: Does she subject Lucie to the horrid conditions of the camp, or does she put her into hiding with her beloved and trusted governess, safe until Vera can retrieve her? Believing...
8) Refugiado
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loqueleo, Santillana
Pub. Date
2019.
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379 pages ; 21 cm
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"Josef es un chico jud?o que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su pa?s despu?s de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres j?venes distintos y una misi?n en com?n: huir de su pa?s."--Publisher's description.
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2019.
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562 pages ; 25 cm
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In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
11) Margot
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Riverhead Books
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2013.
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338 pages ; 21 cm
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In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
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Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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x, 494 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist's vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter's pursuit of a haunting question: what had almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
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294 p. ; 25 cm.
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Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.
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Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
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264 p. ; 25 cm.
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A fictionalized account of the post-war life of Peter, who hid in the secret annex with Anne Frank and her family, follows his survival of the Holocaust, his relocation to America, and his memories upon the publication of Anne's diary.
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
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386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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After finding a collection of her grandfather's letters, a journalist begins a search for the fate of the love he left behind in prewar Vienna six months after the Nazis took Austria.
Years after her grandfather's death, Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters that opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old...
19) And in the Vienna woods the trees remain: the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
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Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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421 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA. Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the thirteen-year-old...
20) Shedding skins
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Central Coast Press
Pub. Date
c2004
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138 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Through short memoirs, essays, and poetry, "Marion Wolff takes us through her fascinating life from childhood in Nazi Germany to the crazy, complicated life of retirement"--Cover.
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