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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
94 pages, 22 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
The former UK Children's Laureate and award-winning author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt traces the losses of several relatives during the Holocaust and his adult search for information about their stories.
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Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
374 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"Set primarily in post-WWII Israel, a suspenseful story that is a worthy contribution to Jewish historical fiction. Recounting the tragic losses and heroic triumphs of the Jewish people during this critical stage in their history, Lone Wolf in Jerusalem brings a tale of love, loss and revenge in a new and inspirational way"--Provided by publisher.
67) Apt pupil
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"Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past ... a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day.Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story...
Author
Series
Paul Christopher novels volume 7
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A tale spanning the period from the late 1930s to the height of the Cold War follows Paul Christopher's struggles against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin through his efforts to escape the machinations of an S.S. officer who would kill Christopher for exposing the man's brutal actions.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
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Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
71) The book of Aron
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"When Karen Cartwright is unexpectedly called home to nurse her ailing father, she goes with a heavy heart. The house she grew up in feels haunted by the memory of her father's closely guarded secrets about her beautiful mother Elizabeth's tragic death years before. During her life, Karen struggled to understand her shy, fearful mother, but now she is realising there was so much more to Elizabeth than she knew. For one thing, her name wasn't even...
75) My effin' life
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 125 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
In this companion book to "The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II," the author presents foty-nine poems exploring the themes of migration and displacement through the lens of his childhood in the shadow of World War II.
77) Caging Skies
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An avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest-then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house and he alone is responsible for her fate. Drawing strength from his daydreams about Hitler, Johannes plans for the end of the war and...
78) The avengers
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A gripping, true story about resistance, courage, and revenge during the Holocaust.
During World War II, in a Lithuanian ghetto, three comrades took courageous action against their German invaders: Abba Kovner, a Jewish partisan leader, produced a manifesto that called for his fellow Jews to take up arms against the Nazis; his future wife Vitka Kempner joined the FPO, a resistance organization; their friend, Ruzka Korczak, also joined the FPO, eager...
79) In darkness
Publisher
Sony Picture Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
80) Margot
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Description
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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