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1) Mala's cat
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Language
English
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"I was only twelve-and-a-half years old when the shadow of the Third Reich fell across Europe. As the nightmare of the German invasion of my defenseless country began, I was more concerned with my schoolbooks and my family and friends than with the ramifications of war. I could not even begin to imagine the extent of the horrors that were soon to follow"--back cover.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments have only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands...
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Publisher
Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman, American Shoes portrays the breakdown of a society from...
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Series
Publisher
Dom Wydawniczy Rebis
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Polish
Description
"Autor był małym chłopcem, gdy w maju 1940 roku wraz z matką i rodzeństwem deportowano go na sowiecką Syberię. Jego ojciec, oficer Wojska Polskiego, wzięty do niewoli przez Armię Czerwoną, zginął jako jedna z tysięcy ofiar zbrodni katyńskiej. Rozdzielenie rodziny i wysiedlenie zapoczątkowało dziesięcioletnią tułaczkę. Skrajnie trudne warunki życia w Kazachstanie, głód, karkołomna ucieczka z ZSRR, śmierć matki, obozy dla uchodźców,...
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Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
Powstanie Warszawskie było odważnym zbrojnym wystąpieniem przeciwko okupantowi. Największa bitwa II wojny światowej zaczęła się 1 sierpnia 1944 roku o 17.00 (godzina W), a zakończyła się 3 października, tego samego roku. Powstanie pochłonęło wiele istnień ludzkich - kobiet, mężczyzn oraz dzieci. I właśnie na dzieciach skupia się Agnieszka Cubała w swojej książce "Warszawskie Dzieci '44". Agnieszka Cubała porusza temat życia...
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 children and juveniles were deported to Auschwitz, only 750 were liberated in the death camp at the end of January 1945. Most of them were under 15 years...
Author
Publisher
[Edwards Brothers, Inc!]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A midnight knock at her door changed everything for 6-year old Krystyna. A Soviet KNVD agent informed her mother that they were being deported to Siberia. Krystyna depicts the horrors of war, from two years in Siberia, to an opium den in Persia, and arriving in London to live through the Nazi Blitz. A story of survival, written sixty years after the events, detailing her refusal to give up.
10) After
Author
Series
Once volume 4
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge; to find hope when he's lost almost everything. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing.
11) One star away
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
'When Soviet soldiers force their way into the Nowicki home at 3:00am, Ziuta has no idea why her family is being arrested, where they are going or when they will return. From the safety of home in Poland to the slave labor camps of Soviet Russia, Ziuta's family suffers starvation, arctic temperatures, and separation. At their most desperate hour, only a miracle would keep each family member alive. Could a kind-hearted Maharaja from faraway India be...
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Publisher
Wydawnictwo "Replika"
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
"Holokaust zarówno dzieci żydowskich, jak i polskich, był tak samo potworną zbrodnią wojenną. Za tę tezę prof. Richard C. Lukas był i nagradzany, i piętnowany. W swojej książce opisuje wojenne losy dzieci polskich i żydowskich. Bazując na zebranych świadectwach oraz zestawiając fakty i statystyki, ukazuje tragiczny los młodych ludzi tak samo skazanych na eksterminację. Może z innych przyczyn, może realizowaną inaczej, ale zdecydowanie...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
The astonishing, true story of a group of Jewish children who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the Nazi-Occupied city, showing bravery and resourcefulness. grade: 06-08.
Author
Publisher
Muza
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Polish
Description
"Imogene Salva opisuje dramatyczne wojenne i powojenne dzieje swojej matki, Józefiny (Ziuty) Nowickiej oraz jej pięciorga rodzeństwa i rodziców, w lutym 1940 roku wywiezionych przez Sowietów na Syberię z rodzinnego gospodarstwa na Wołyniu. Po dwóch latach, dzięki desperackiej i heroicznej decyzji, cała rodzina uciekła z wioski pod Wołogdą do Kujbyszewa, skąd armia Andersa wraz z filantropem i bohaterem - hinduskim maharadżą Jamem Sahebem...
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