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2) Kapò
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a Jewish girl from Paris sent to a concentration camp during World War II and her struggle to survive by stealing another's identity and becoming a warden.
3) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
4) The Jackal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth -- and meets a male who changes everything forever. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on real-life events. Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-- mainly Jewish women and girls-- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. Called the Upper Tailoring Studio, it was established by the camp commandant's wife and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Adlington follows the fates of these women. While exposing the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells a documentary-style story of rebellion, survival, and life amid death in a fictitious death camp, shedding new light on the chilling events that took place in 1939 Poland.
11) Bent
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1930s Berlin, homosexual Max sleeps with German officer Wolf, only to see him killed by his fellow Nazis the next morning. Fleeing with his boyfriend, Rudy, Max is eventually caught and forced to beat his partner to death on a train to prove they have no connection. He's then sent to Dachau concentration camp and meets Horst, a proud gay man also bound for the camp. Despite their harsh surroundings, the two fall in love.
12) One candle
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (31 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Candlewick Press edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp.
16) Three came home
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British and American families living in Borneo during World War II are packed into prison camps by the Japanese, where authoress Colbert catches the eye of the tough but cultured officer Hayakawa.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. This encounter and the moral dilemma it posed raise fundamental questions about the limits and possibilities of forgiveness. Must we, can we forgive the repentant criminal? Can we forgive...
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.
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