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22) Mischling
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners--an act of generosity that would later save her life. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March. When...
24) Shimon's return
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The documentary shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel tells the story of Shimon Redlich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive. A collector of memories and a seeker of good will, Shimon takes us on a journey through Poland and Ukraine, uncovering the brighter sides of dark times. The film also employs archival footage from the 1948 Yiddish film “Unzere Kinder”,...
26) The last laugh
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Are we allowed to make jokes about the Holocaust? In this outrageously funny and thought-provoking film, filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein puts the question about comedy's ultimate taboo to legends including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Gilbert Gottfried, Harry Shearer, Jeff Ross, Judy Gold, Susie Essman, Larry Charles, and many other critical thinkers, as well as Holocaust survivors themselves. Through these interviews and clips from our favorite...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this companion book to "The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II," the author presents foty-nine poems exploring the themes of migration and displacement through the lens of his childhood in the shadow of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating and timely examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends and even family members against one another--as seen through the little-known story of the Eastern European border town Buczacz during World War II"--
32) Conspiracy
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the conference at Wannsee organized by SS General Reinhard Heydrich where the "final solution to the Jewish question" was to be decided.
33) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
34) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Shuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it's his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper of Amsterdam, who joined the Dutch resistance and created a clandestine safehouse in the woods, which became an important Jewish hiding place and underground center, before being captured by the Nazis and put on the last train to Auschwitz along with Anne Frank and her family.
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