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Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources-including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries-the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and...
4) The hunter
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961.
Edition
[first edition].
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people. Includes historical notes, recipe, glossary, and a link to a bibliography.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The "stunning" debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio—the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic—is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.
10) Shoah
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Director-approved six-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (60 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
15) The mover
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Latvian
Description
Despite his family's hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Zanis Lipke embarked on a covert operation to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.
16) Auschwitz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. Compiling new archival material and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure." — New York Times Book Review
The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects
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