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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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Español
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Erase una vez un mundo donde las noches eran largas y la Muerte contaba su propia historia. erase una vez una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. En el pueblo vivia una nina que queria leer, un hombre que tocaba el acordeon y un joven judio que escribia cuentos hermosos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo, la nina se convirtio en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Y con esas palabras se escribio una...
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
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Holocaust volume 3
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Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Using primary source material along with historical narrative, explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1939 and December 1941.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her in Germany during World War II. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
11) Friedrich
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English
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A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime. The story of a Jewish boy and his family caught in the horror of the rise of the Nazi party and the Holocaust.
15) The lost letter
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2017.
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English
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Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and simultaneously works alongside Elena, his beloved teacher's fiery daughter, and with the Austrian resistance to send underground messages and forge papers. As he falls for Elena amidst the brutal chaos of war, Kristoff must find a way to save her, and himself. Los...
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Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The Holocaust and its aftermath were not often discussed in families of second-generation survivors. In Tel Aviv of the 1960s, Emanuel Rosen grew up hearing the staccato of his mother’s typewriter, but had no idea about the battle she was fighting. This changed years later, when he found a box with letters that his grandparents had sent from a tragic 1956-trip to Germany and he decided to retrace their journey. This book braids the stories...
17) The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan: a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people." Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000, 2001
Language
English
Description
The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad...