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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr.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.
''The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as...
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"That nickname . . .' '"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.' As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never...
3) Greenhorn
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A young Holocaust survivor arrives in 1946 at a New York yeshiva where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the other boys, comes to consider Daniel his friend"--Provided by publisher.
"In Anna Olswanger’s Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
"The inspiring true story about how a modern teen girl and her Holocaust-survivor friend fought against hate to create change. In 2018, fourteen-year-old Claire Sarnowski stood with ninety-two-year-old Alter Wiener in front of the Oregon state senate to champion a cause the two friends both believed in: making Holocaust...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The “mesmerizing and inspirational” (Judy Batalion) true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later. Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When the Nazis invade her small Polish town, Enia Feld is separated from her family and forced into hiding and at the mercy of her neighbors, in this gripping graphic memoir of survival and rediscovering your song during the Holocaust.
''A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when...
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