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542) From sand and ash
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Italy, 1943--Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II. As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva...
544) The only way
Publisher
distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story of Denmark's actions to save its Jewish citizens from extermination while under German occupation during World War II.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
450 pages, 17 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1939 Romy and her family leave Austria to settle in Shanghai as Jewish refugees and Romy forms a deep friendship with Li, and in 2016, Romy's granddaughter Alexandra transfers to Shanghai to search for clues about her mother's history.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
Author
Series
Sheldon Horowitz novels volume prequel
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate. Sheldon, his teenage cousins...
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., photos ; 28 cm.
Description
As a Confederate family prepares for Passover the day after the Civil War has ended, a Yankee arrives on their Virginia doorstep and is invited to share their meal, to the dismay of ten-year-old Jacob. Includes historical notes about Corporal Myer Levy, on whom the story is based, and his prominent Philadelphia family.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Esta es la apasionante historia de una mujer que dedico su vida a devolver la identidad a ciento ocho nin judios, desaparecidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una joven decidida a mostrar la verdad. Lyon, 1992. Una estudiante tiene que enfrentarse a un pais y a una universidad que quieren pasar pagina y dejar atras el pasado, pero el hallazgo de una vieja caja con las fichas de unos ninos judios, en paradero desconocido desde el verano de 1942,...
552) Shall we not revenge
Author
Publisher
Allium Press of Chicago
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Shortly after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Irish detective Frank Hanley is assigned the case of a murdered rabbi. He is aided in his investigation by the rabbi's daughter, Rivka. They uncover political corruption involving Irish gangsters and a prominent relief organization"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
555) Pinsky
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman, whose life seems to be falling apart, moves back into her family's apartment but her authoritarian and controlling Russian grandmother does not make things easier for her.
557) The silver music box
Author
Series
Silver music box volume 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together. 1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved...
Author
Series
Rashi's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 359 p. ; 22 cm.
559) The hiding place
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families and her eventual arrest and imprisonment in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense...
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