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141) 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.
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 235 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day to day conditions in a Japanese labor camp and provides an intimate look at the collapse of Dutch colonial rule. As a boy growing up on the island of Java, the author spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger...
143) The enormous room
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.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
145) The plum tree
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.
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