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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Fleeing Nazi Germany was just the start. Dr. Otto Kahn never thought of himself as a Holocaust survivor. He has only vague memories of fleeing with his family from their small German village of Lorsch, after Nazis torched the synagogue and twice imprisoned his father. In this candid and compelling memoir, Otto examines how that remembered legacy shaped his life. His parents demanded hard work and industriousness of Otto and his four older brothers...
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 6
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Discusses the fate of those Jews who survived annihilation by the Nazis: their further persecution, search for a homeland in Palestine, and hunt for war criminals. Also examines other cases of genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
Usher Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents roused her and her older sister from their beds and, with other relatives in tow, fled their town of Sucha and the invasion by Nazi Germany."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Helena steps off the cattle train onto the frozen grounds of Auschwitz. She has twenty-four hours to live. Scheduled to be killed tomorrow, she is not even tattooed with a prison number. As the snow falls around her, she shivers, knowing that she has been sentenced to death for a crime she didn’t commit. When a gray-clad officer marches towards Helena and pulls her away, she fears the worst. Instead, he tells her that it’s one of the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Having a normal and happy childhood in the 1930s in her community in Poland, a young girl explains how greatly things changed when acts of anti-Semitism began, families got deported, and her very life was put at risk after being forced into hiding with a family of brave gentiles upon the arrival of the Nazis.
1195) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
1197) The Windermere children
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on an extraordinary, untold true story of hope, this moving and ultimately redemptive story follows child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and the remarkable team who were responsible for helping these children rebuild their lives as they forge friendships that will become a lifeline to a better future.
1198) David and Jonathan
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The relationship between two close friends, Henry and Jonathan, changes when Jonathan's cousin David, a victim of the Holocaust, comes to live with David's family.
Publisher
MTV Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at the stories of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, through diaries, archival films, and drawings. Includes original footage of the remnants of a Jewish ghetto and readings by Brittney Murphy, Ryan Gosling, and more
1200) The book of Aron
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution. He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the...