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2001) The counterfeit countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
Author
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust havegiven rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
147 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
253 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
2004) Where eagles dare
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1968
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of special agents attempting to rescue an Allied general from an impregnable castle is jeopardized by a ruthless German double agent.
2005) A secret
Author
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man discovers his family's history during the Holocaust.
2006) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day--the American, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German, Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions during the war. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare...
2007) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Publisher
SDS Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (540 min.) : sound, color, black and white, sepia ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
charming film based...
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