Elie Wiesel
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness. Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II, this heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song is accompanied by magnificent full-color paintings by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hung to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal...
25) Sighet, Sighet
Publisher
Alden Films
Pub. Date
[200-].
Language
English
Description
A haunting film about Elie Wiesel's hometown, Sighet. During World War II, the entire Jewish population of Sighet disappeared in the German cattle trains. This work describes the deportation of the Jews as an event of little consequence to Wiesel's non-Jewish neighbors.
Author
Publisher
OU Press, Sterling
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A autobiography of Israel Meir Lau, from his childhood and survival as a prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp, his life after the war, and his studies as a rabbinical student, to the birth and development of the State of Israel and his current position as Chief Rabbi of Israel.
29) Nicky's family
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Nicky's Family tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. “I see it as an offering,” she explains. “If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to.” Now, for the first time, the aha moments of inspiration and soul-expanding insight that have enlightened millions on the three-time Emmy Award-winning Super Soul Sunday are collected in The Wisdom of Sundays,...