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English
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an entirely original tale of survival"--
4) The one man
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...
5) Paper hearts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that?s based on a true story." --Amazon.com.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
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English
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"Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than 50,000 photos of the nightmare that surrounded him. Brasse's...
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
12) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but more than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm and forced into one such camp, Lettie and her family fight...
14) Przeżyć
Author
Publisher
Muzeum Gross-Rosen
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Wyd. 1.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Polish
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A photographic collection of arts and crafts made in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, along with a historical overview of the camps"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Criterion collection volume 59
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014, 1974.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life--and, shockingly, love--in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul--it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewic. An amateur magician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with members of a secret Jewish choir; when the group was violently disbanded at a rehearsal, Kulisiewic was the only member who survived the Holocaust. Aided by an eidetic memory, he was able to preserve for posterity...
20) The night porter
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before.
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