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81) Fania's heart
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Sorale finds a heart-shaped book, her mother recounts her experiences living in Auschwitz prison camp.
Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother’s belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? And why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before? Fania’s...
Author
Publisher
Racehorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944-This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over one hundred miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from...
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Language
English
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"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information — and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow A complex hero. A forgotten story. The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust . . . Award-winning journalist and bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Written in Auschwitz itself, this one-of-a-kind, minute-by-minute true account is a crucial historical testament to a Holocaust survivor's fight for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany, translated for the first time ever into English. "We know that there is only one ending to this, only one liberation from this barbed wire hell: death." --Eddy de Wind. In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a...
88) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Language
English
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Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
90) Medallions
Author
Series
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Medallions is a collection of eight documentary stories originally published in Poland in 1946 that recount Nazi war crimes under the German occupation of the country. The author, Zofia Nalkowska, was a member of a special committee for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Poland, and the stories reflect facts she learned from victims and witnesses to atrocities inflicted on Polish civilians. Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed."--
Author
Series
Hidden masterpieces volume 1
Publisher
Nashville, Tennessee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An art dealer searches for a mysterious portrait of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes.
93) Beyond the wire
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the deadand moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums...Every morning, Anna marches miles to the union munitions factory where she works alongside other prisoners...she and a few other...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children's block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary...
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Publisher
Monoray
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. One by one, families are broken up, adults and children disappear or are 'sent...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive...
Author
Publisher
SixOne Seven Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A divorcée is hit on by her philandering ex whose new wife is stricken with cancer. An untimely shattered knee complicates a man’s decision to dump his fiancée. A grieving widow is burdened by her daughter’s relationship troubles. A teenaged cancer survivor convinces her friends to go on a quest in search of her older crush. A Jewish man is shocked by his Catholic girlfriend’s reaction to visiting Auschwitz.
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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...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story that takes place in 1939 about one man's attempt to save himself and his family when the Nazis occupy Greece and they are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Each boxing match this middleweight champ fights sends the loser to the gas chamber, and he wonders how he can continue to save himself, his family, and his sanity.
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...
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