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Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This real-life thriller recounts the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission of WWII by U.S. Army Rangers who, aided by the "Angels of the Underground," the Sixth Ranger Battalion and courageous Filipino guerrilla soldiers, saved their fellow servicemen from certain death.
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...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast-elderly people, children, babies-now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp's tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light,...
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