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Author
Publisher
Owlkids
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. Two years later, he managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. After a misstep with a teenage prostitute, he vowed to right the wrongs he'd done and help the girl have a better life. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, his hopes of being with the girl had...
63) Aleutian sparrow
Author
Publisher
Random House Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (1 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel are like a fairy tale torn apart, as they lose everything but each other and must endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp.
66) The harmonica
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration camp, keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders him to play.
69) The big red one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film (based on Fuiller's own war experiences) follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. This restoration was based on Fuller's shooting script and extensive notes he made during production, and adds back...
71) After the bloom
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums. What lies behind the phenomenon of Holocaust tourism, and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Reynolds argues that tourism to concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the mass relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, profiling individuals such as Daniel Inouye, Yoshiko Uchida, and George Takei.
75) Persian lessons
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
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by a true story. Helene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. Helene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When young ghostwriter Jenni Clark agrees to pen the memoir of an elderly farm owner, she expects nothing more than the ordinary, quiet tale of a life well-lived by a woman well-loved. But Klara's life has been far from quiet; and as she narrates her story of a family ripped apart by life in the internment camps of Java during World War II, Jenni finds herself forced to face her own ghosts, products of a long-buried, devastating childhood secret"--...
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