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"ECPA 2015 Christian Book Award Finalist! 2014 finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards! Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. As the Nazi war machine rolls across Europe, young Jacob Weisz is forced to flee his beloved Germany and join an underground resistance group in Belgium. But when a rescue operation goes horribly wrong, Jacob finds himself trapped in a crowded cattle car headed to southern Poland. Sentenced to hard labor in the Auschwitz...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda--and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap--Henryks secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her fathers past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück womens camp concealed among her mothers things. Within its seams are dozens of letters to...
4) Echoes
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English
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Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal...and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a...
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Lee Boudreaux Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Arriving at Auschwitz in 1944, twin sisters Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in each other when they become part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, where they experience horrors unknown to other inmates.
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Paris Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Three girls come of age in the Nazi concentration camps and repeatedly save each other through their ingenuity, kindness, and acts of courage This autobiographical novel depicts the experiences of three girls coming of age in the Nazi concentration camps. Through Tania's eyes, we experience claustrophobic uncertainty, grief, terror, exhaustion, and Tania's sustaining hope, her ability to always see and experience beauty. As in The Diary of Anne Frank,...
7) Requiem
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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After spending his youth in an internment camp during World War II, Bin Okuma travels across Canada to find his biological father despite his leaving a devastating legacy.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The wife of an SS officer, Frau Hahn is oblivious to the fact that a concentration camp is on the fringe of their idyllic life until she is forced into an unlikely and poignant alliance with one of Buchwald's prisoners who challenges her naïve ignorance.
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"The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert...
10) The one man
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...
11) Cilka's journey
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2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
12) Medallions
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Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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"Medallions is a collection of eight documentary stories originally published in Poland in 1946 that recount Nazi war crimes under the German occupation of the country. The author, Zofia Nalkowska, was a member of a special committee for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Poland, and the stories reflect facts she learned from victims and witnesses to atrocities inflicted on Polish civilians. Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature,...
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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"Una novela extraordinaria basada en una desgarradora historia real... Alex Ehren es poeta y maestro en el bloque número 31 de Auschwitz-Birkenau, el bloque de los niños. Pasó sus días intentando sobrevivir mientras de manera ilegal daba clases a los niños, tratando de blindarlos lo mejor que podía de la horrible realidad que se vivía en el campo. Pero intentar dar lecciones a los niños no fue la única actividad ilícita en la que Alex estuvo...
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Planeta Inernacional
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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"La nueva novela de Heather Morris, autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Una novela basada en una extraordinaria historia real de amor y supervivencia. La belleza fue su condena y el amor su salvaci̤n. Con solo diecišis ąos, la prisionera jud̕a Cilka Klein fue convertida en la concubina de uno de los comandantes de Auschwitz- Birkenau. Se salv̤ de morir de hambre, enfermedad o en las cmaras de gas, pero, tras la liberaci̤n, fue acusada de colaboradora...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Thirty-year-old Gili seeks to make a film that might help explain her life and embarks on an unlikely journey with her grandmother, Vera, to a barren island off the coast of Croatia where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for not denouncing her husband as an enemy of the state.
"From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children's block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary...
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