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Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.
"A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most...
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During the Second World War two Jewish sisters -- Janny and Lien Brilleslijper -- run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in The Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbors. Eventually, the nest is exposed and the Brilleslijper family put on one of the...
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Vision Films
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[2016]
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English
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Award-winning film director, Philippe Mora and music legend Eric Clapton have joined forces to co-produce a very personal film, which details life and death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mora blends his art with a journey to the camp itself to recount his family's loss and survival at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz.
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Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In the tradition of Elie Wiesels Night and Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivor. Finalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize. More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous “death march” in January 1945, the painful aftermath of...
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