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1) Night train to Lisbon

Author

Mercier, Pascal

Publisher

Grove Press

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

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Former Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author.

2) Gertruda's oath: a child, a promise, and a heroic escape during World War II

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Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

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Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the...

3) Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter: the past within me

Author

Rotem, Śimḥah

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

4) Journey to my father, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author

Publisher

Arcade Pub

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

5) Yehuda Amichai, a life of poetry, 1948-1994

Author

Amichai, Yehuda

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

6) Marc Chagall and his times: a documentary narrative

Author

Harshav, Benjamin

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English