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2022
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2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
"Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival." —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept...
"Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival." —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept...
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2016
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English
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A French woman’s heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.
A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens,...
A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens,...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
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1150L
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"Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, where Thomas was separated from his family. Alone, ten-year-old Thomas managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive Auschwitz and the infamous death march. Filled with the stirring and true insights of a child, this acclaimed memoir conveys the sheer...
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2016
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English
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The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust-and lived happily ever after.
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939, Günter boarded a bus to the border of Luxembourg, illegally crossed the river, and walked alone for seven...
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"For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television's number-one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they've come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden"--Book jacket flap.
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The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest
Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers’ fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he repeatedly escaped death at the hands...
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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman's astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of...
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Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families. Inspired by the practice of narrative therapy, these essays bear witness to the experience of survivors and facilitate deeper levels of self-awareness by each of the contributors. In each chapter, the themes of struggle, survival, and resilience demonstrate the power of...
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"I am a Jew. Between 1933 and 1945 I lived in Germany, the country of my birth, with the many who perished and with the few who survived the Holocaust." With these bald statements Ken Arkwright commences the story of his life. There have been countless stories written by and about Holocaust survivors, and each one has its own perspective, each being a witness statement, an eye-witness account - and each deserves to be told. This particular book has...
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'When five words uttered by a German soldier determine whether you live or die, you spend your life trying to unravel all the what-ifs. What if I had not been born in Poland in 1939? What if those five words had not been said? What if I had grown up in a safe, happy environment, surrounded by a large family?'
Take the Child and Disappear examines the Shoah (Holocaust) from multiple perspectives – before, during and after. As the author recounts...
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Una adolescencia robada por el nazismo. Así es como podría resumirse la adolescencia de Nicolas Rosenthal, que debió exiliarse de los suyos en 1938, fue aprendiz antes de cumplir los 15 años y cruzó clandestinamente la línea de demarcación en julio de 1942. El diario que escribió en francés a partir de 1940, elección de ruptura con una patria de origen corrompida por el nacionalsocialismo, se dirige a sus padres, que paradójicamente no...
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In this memoir, Gabriella Karin tells her incredible story of survival through the Holocaust. A Jewish girl in Bratislava, she and her family were, forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Gabriella, only 14 years old, and her family spent nine long months hiding in a small apartment across the street from the Nazi-Slovak Gestapo. She and her family survived thanks to the selfless help of their savior, Karol Blanar, whom Gabriella...
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This is a remarkable book as it is a translation of an account written by the author Ernst Raubitschek soon after, World War Two. As the title suggests it tells of his journey to Dachau concentration camp, his stay there and subsequent, journey to Buchenwald concentration camp after Kristallnacht and before, the outbreak of war.
It has been, translated by Ernst's daughter Renate Yates. She has included a preface, telling of a happy and full life...
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Este libro, que se origina en el seno del grupo denominado Francia… ¿dulce Francia de nuestra infancia?, da cuenta, a través del recorrido de sus miembros, de las múltiples formas que cobró la persecución contra los judíos en la Francia ocupada por los nazis. Niños "fichados", niños "marcados", niños escondidos, adolescentes enrolados en la resistencia, jóvenes salvadores de niños, jóvenes deportados, tenían entre 0 y 18 años cuando...
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Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents, conversations, and actions that would have remained unknown to history were it not for his witness and his subsequent research. Also a member of...
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On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein's father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The Waldstein family received these letters as they made their lives on a southern Ontario farm, where they learned to be Canadian and forget their Jewish roots....
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Philip Riteman is a Holocaust survivor whose mission is to educate today's youth on the atrocities committed against millions of Jews and Gentiles by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II. From the Pruzhany Ghetto, Poland, Philip and his family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, his entire family was exterminated. As the lone survivor, Philip was used as a forced labourer in five concentration camps, where he witnessed the cruellest...
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