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41) Karoussel
Publisher
Alden Films
Pub. Date
[199?]
Language
English
Description
Karoussel, named for a cabaret at Theresienstadt that Kurt Geron (a film star of Weimar Germany) had created, shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany, along with the anti-semitism of pre-war Europe leading up to the Holocaust.
42) The one man
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Language
English
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Hungarian
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslñder is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
46) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
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...
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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...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivaled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that...
49) Love it was not
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
עברית
Description
Tells the story of a relationship between an Auschwitz concentration camp guard and one of the women prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting.
Author
Publisher
Academy Chicago
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
A young survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald vividly describes the ordeals he faces through text and illustrations drawn in Buchenwald after the liberation. the author shows the feeling of hope which enabled the young to survive.
Author
Language
English
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"A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. "I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf." Tova Friedman was one of...
54) Numbered
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi officer begins a post at Auschwitz where he learns of an imprisoned Jew, known as “the Watchmaker,” who is proving unbeatable at chess and begins a strange relationship and rivalry as they match wits across the gameboard.
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"Las poderosas y emotivas memorias de Dita Kraus, la bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. La verdadera historia que ha conmovido a más de 5 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Nacida en Praga en 1929, hija de familia judía, Dita Kraus ha vivido las décadas más turbulentas de los siglos XX y XXI. En estas, sus memorias, Dita escribe con sorprendente claridad sobre los horrores y las alegrías de una vida interrumpida por el Holocausto. Desde sus primeros...
60) They looked away
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The evidence of what the Allies knew about the existence of Auschwitz and their reasons not to bomb the camp are examined through archival footage and interviews with camp survivors, historians, and military pilots, bombardiers, and photo interpreters directly involved in Allied missions over the Auschwitz region.
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