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"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 notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-mainly Jewish women and girls-were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon....
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"One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters - a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities,...
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Holocaust survivor true stories WWII volume 17
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Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos...
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On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents homes wearing their best clothes and confidently wavinggood-bye.Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they wereeager to report for government service. Instead, the young women many of them teenagers were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Una increíble historia de amistad, sororidad y supervivencia. La historia de las primeras 999 mujeres judías que fueron enviadas al campo de exterminio. "Todo comenzó con las chicas", dice Giora Amir, de 91 años. El 25 de marzo de 1942, cientos de jóvenes mujeres judías y solteras abandonaron sus hogares para subir a un tren. Estaban impecablemente vestidas y peinadas, y arrastraban sus maletas llenas de ropa tejida a mano y comida casera....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies....
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Polart Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Polish
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A young Jewish girl is sent to a concentration camp where, in a strange twist of fate, she is selected to be an interpreter while her entire family is killed. Now she must deal with her grief, her new position, and the tyrannical guards in the camp.
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Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Publisher's description: The many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women's voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related to them. In Experience and Expression, the authors take on this challenge, providing the first book-length gendered analysis of women and the Holocaust, a topic that is emerging as a new field of inquiry...
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Terra Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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A loving mother writes a farewell letter to her son just days before she dies in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Fifty years later, the letter mysteriously reaches her son. It is a letter of hope that could inspire everyone it touched.
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University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing. While this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty-three countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück, including political...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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This young readers' edition is the remarkable untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. As their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into resistance factions. These 'ghetto girls' helped build systems of underground bunkers, paid off the Gestapo, and bombed German train lines. At the center...
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University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central works of Holocaust scholarship and representation, from the books of Hannah Arendt and Ruth Kluger to films such as Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Interviews with survivors and their...
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