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"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays...
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"Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomasz̤w Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943, however, the family was deported to a slave labor camp in...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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All but My Life is the basis for the HBO Academy Award® winning best documentary short, One Survivor Remembers.
This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops—including the man who was to become her husband—in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Gerda takes us on a terrifying
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Insight Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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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, traveled to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, the family's devoted Catholic nanny. When Michael's mother had a stroke, Gertruda promised the dying woman that she would make her way to Palestine and raise him as...
13) To life
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"A Holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America." --
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"During World War II, Marione and her family miraculously escape the firestorms of Hamburg and seek shelter with a contact in the countryside who grudgingly agrees to house them in a shed for more than a year. "--Provided by publisher.
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"While imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, thirteen-year-old Ruth Krautwirth maintained a sense of dignity even as she struggled to stay alive. Humanity in Auschwitz: Letters from My Grandmother is Ruth's life story, from growing up in Nazi Germany, through surviving the concentration camps with her mother, to rebuilding her life in the United States. With vivid imagery, Ruth describes the uncontrolled hatred and destruction she experienced in her youth....
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Frontline Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80lbs. Somehow surviving the relentless horrors of these two brutal camps, as Allied forces drew near Dave was forced to join a death march...
19) Simon Wiesenthal
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2000.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Examines the life and accomplishments of Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, whose passion for justice has brought many Nazis to account for their horrific deeds.
