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"A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal. Silvia Foti's mother was dying. Wanting to preserve family history, Silvia's mother asks her to write a book about Foti's grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti's grandmother tries to intervene - begging her granddaughter not...
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A Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Story Of Nazi War Crimes Trials Disclosed Here For The First Time Leon Jaworski was a prodigal lawyer, the youngest person ever to be admitted to the Texas Bar and was involved in some of the important cases in legal history. His enduring fame came from leading the prosecution of the Watergate case, United States v Nixon, and heading the large Texas based law firm Fulbright and Jaworski. Jaworski wrote a number of autobiographical...
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The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing."
These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and...
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Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all those who were faithful to the Third Reich are dead-some members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive, and increasingly difficult to track down. Time is rapidly running out, but Efraim Zuroff won't give up. Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, he spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death...
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Reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of his era whose intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the aemigrae community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob.
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When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s is, discovered in her grandmother's secret drawer, award-winning photographer and author Jana Marcus is launched into a decades-long quest to uncover her family's hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold case. But the search is a mere prologue to a far greater puzzle that takes her deep into the origins of her Jewish immigrant roots, corruption at the highest levels of New York's...
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The correspondence between American social and political activist Abbie Hoffman and his wife during the first of his eight years as a fugitive in the '70s.
In March, 1974, facing drug charges in a case in which he claims he was innocent, Abbie Hoffman, one of the Chicago Seven, became a fugitive, forced to leave behind Anita, his wife of eight-years, and America, their four-year-old son. During this time, they could only communicate through letters....
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In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg-a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts, lost her husband, Nathan, to a railroad accident, a tragedy that left her alone with six children to raise. To support the family after Nathan's death, Rebecca continued work she'd done for years: keeping chickens. Once or twice a week, with a suitcase full of fresh eggs in one hand and a child in the other, she delivered her product to...
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"The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America during the 1930s and 1940s--and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back...with a vengeance.With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson divulges the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers in the years leading to WWII."--
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