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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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...
24) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
234 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face to face with 'Angel of Death' Dr. Joseph Mengele and was divided forever from his [family] ... He learned how...
34) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the event known as the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
35) Live bait
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This whimsical, autobiographical novel recounts Cummings' unjust incarceration at the hands of the French during World War I. Though a conscientious objector, Cummings nevertheless volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, leading to a comedy of errors that resulted in him being accused of treason and thrown into a French concentration camp in Normandy.
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