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Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story of struggle, heroism, and triumph during the rise of fascism and communism In the Time of Madmen examines a journey of discovery through the eyes of one family against world events of the past 125 years. Hope, love and resilience sustained them. The story focuses primarily on the life of the author's mother, Katheryn (1921-2014). Her drive and perseverance led her to the brink of achieving her dream of competing in the Olympics and then studying...
Author
Publisher
Skirt / Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
x, 229 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary and literary love story between a young mother and a much older Holocaust survivor that celebrates the unique and powerful bonds of friendship. It explores a complex relationship with someone from a different generation and socioeconomic background, and someone who happened to be one of the last surviving Holocaust witnesses of our time--Publisher's summary.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids-until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944....
49) Life is strange
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
©2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While these are the stories of Jewish people who were displaced by the Second World War, the film concentrates on the vibrant cultural and family life they experienced in their youth that ultimately was most influential in their lives. It explores the connection between old age and childhood, asking questions about what remains of childhood in our later years, as well as engaging interesting issues of self-identity, Jewish identity, and the struggle...
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor Teddy Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eger--one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors--tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives. At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death,' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and...
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