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[2014]
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English
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
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"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, arecent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led...
3) Echoes
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English
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Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Told from the important and often overlooked perspective of a young gay man imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, We Are Only Ghosts evocatively portrays how the things that happen to us, both tragic and beautiful, shape who we are, and how we have the power to choose who we become in spite of our suffering. This gripping testament to the strength of the human spirit will both haunt and inspire you.
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"In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father-who she believed died during her infancy-and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hévíz in Hungary. Here,...
7) One candle
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Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
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Series
Owner volume 1
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Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Visible in the night sky, the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus, the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, as twelve...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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A magnetic debut novel from world-renowned violinist Eugene Drucker
Set during the final weeks of World War II, The Savior is the story of Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist. Exempted from military service, Keller is burdened with the demoralizing task of playing for wounded soldiers in hospitals and makeshift infirmaries.
As he leaves his apartment one morning to pick up a new assignment at headquarters, Keller finds an SS driver waiting...
11) Aleutian sparrow
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
12) Requiem
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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During World War II, Canada interned citizens of Japanese descent, just as the United States did. Here, Itani recaptures history through fiction by imagining the story of young Bin Okuma and his family, who were transported from their British Columbia home to a desolate area 100 miles from the "Protected Zone" and only grudgingly given access to food, plumbing, and electricity. Fifty years later, after his wife dies, Bin returns to the area, hoping...
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Distributed by Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
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In 1930s Italy a bumbling Jewish waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But that life is threatened by World War II.
14) The prison child
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Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1943: In Theresienstadt concentration camp, a brown-eyed baby girl is born in darkness, surrounded by barbed wire. The innocent new-born has no hope of surviving--unless, by some kind of miracle, she is able to escape... In New York, over a decade later, Annie listens to her mother and father's urgent whispers on her twelfth birthday. "They're going to find out that she doesn't belong to us. She'll be taken away." The...
15) The Red Ribbon
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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As 14-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, and...
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Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Based on the unforgettable true story of Alma Rosé, The Violinist of Auschwitz brings to life one of history's most fearless, inspiring and courageous heroines. Alma's bravery saved countless lives, bringing hope to those who had forgotten its meaning... In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her skin in pale blue ink. She is cooped up with thousands of others, torn from loved ones, trapped...
17) Motyl i skrzypce
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Publisher
Wydawnictwo Znak
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Polish
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Adele von Bron, utalentowana skrzypaczka, poswiecila wszystko, zeby ratowac ostatnich wiedenskich Zydów. Kiedy na polecenie wlasnego ojca, wysokiego ranga generala Trzeciej Rzeszy, trafila do obozu w Auschwitz, jej piekny swiat legl w gruzach. Przerazajaca codziennoscia staly sie glód, strach i cierpienie. Kilkadziesiat lat póznej Sera James, wlascicielka galerii sztuki na Manhattanie, angazuje sie w poszukiwania portretu mlodej skrzypaczki, który...
18) Her last promise
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Series
Hanni Winter volume Book 4
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Berlin, 1938. When Hanni's beloved sister suddenly vanishes in the middle of the night, Hanni knows her high-ranking Nazi father, Reiner, is not telling her the whole truth and may hold the key to her disappearance. Years later, after finally learning how to live with her troubled past, Hanni dedicates herself to raising her teenage son, Leo, but her sister is never far from her mind. But when Leo begins to share Reiner's pro-Nazi views and runs...
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Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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Praga 1939. La joven madre Eva tiene un secreto de su pasado. Cuando los nazis invaden, Eva sabe que la única forma de mantener a salvo a su hija Miriam es enviarla lejos, incluso si eso significa no volver a verla nunca más. Pero cuando Eva es llevada a un campo de concentración, su secreto corre el riesgo de ser descubierto. En Londres, Pamela se ofrece como voluntaria para ayudar a encontrar lugares para los niños judíos llegados de Europa....
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