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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
"[Read by Richard Armitage] The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Editorial Planeta S.A.I.C
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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"Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la tarea de tatuar los números en las víctimas que - como él - eran encerradas en Auschwitz, usó la mínima libertad que su rol le permitía para intercambiar...
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Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Auschwitz survivors discuss the meanings their serial-number tattoos have taken on in the years following the war.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts—until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects Murray Scheinberg’s stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II....
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial work on the harrowing fate of children in the Nazi extermination camps"--
"The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 children and juveniles were deported to Auschwitz, only 750...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its long-hidden wartime secrets— and a son discovering the Faustian bargain his Jewish father made with the Nazis in order to survive. Growing up, Tony Bernard knew that his father, Henry, had been in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was familiar with the tattoo bearing his Auschwitz number-B1224-and...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Language
English
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Description
"From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months....
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched across her little thigh. And I prayed that one day this set of numbers, identical to her mother's, would have the power to reunite a family torn apart by war… Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself...
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