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Series
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity. With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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43) Our Holocaust
Author
Publisher
Toby
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other real relatives alive, relationships operated under a 'Law of Compression' in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighbourhood saint.
44) Sophie's choice
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A haunting modern tragedy about Sophie Zawistowska, a beautiful Polish Auschwitz survivor settled in Brooklyn after WWII. She has intense relationships with a schizophrenic genius and an aspiring Southern writer.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eger--one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors--tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives. 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...
46) Remembering, voices of the holocaust: a new history in the words of the men and women who survived
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Contains a selection of transcripts taken from the sound archives of Britain's Imperial War Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Interviews of Holocaust survivors, refugees, families of the murdered and of survivors, aid workers and troops who liberated the camps are included.
47) Diva
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
At 16, Maeve is a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Boer War, her father dead, her mother reduced to penury. She is taken to Europe by Sean Farrell. In Paris, then Berlin, she becomes one of the greatest opera singers of her generation.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz--nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Maxs family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...
51) I remember
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Anna Prager was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1936. This book chronicles her family history, which begins in Poland and progresses through several countries during the Holocaust. The stories include her memories of the journey that eventually take her nuclear family to the United States, and letters written by family members who did not survive the war." --
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A former Israeli special forces man helps his brother in Sardinia find his kidnaped son. In the process he discovers a plot by ex-Nazis intent on reviving the Third Reich. He destroys the plotters with the help of a beautiful Arab interpreter.
57) Paper is white
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead. As the two young women beat their own early path toward marriage equality, Ellen's longing to plumb that voluminous silence draws her into a clandestine entanglement with a wily Holocaust survivor--a woman with more to hide than tell--and...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter-a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed-which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that...