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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
566 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
This translation of one of the most endearing documents of the 20th century captures Anne's youthful spirit and restores original material omitted by Anne's father -- details about Anne's emerging sexuality and the often stormy relations between Anne and her mother. Major media attention.
Author
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the rue de Sévigné. As he becomes involved with the letter's recipient, his elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena, their younger brother leaves school for the stage -- and Europe's unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying...
5) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced labor, and extermination. Marie took off her yellow star, turned her back on the Jewish community, and vanished into the city. In the years that followed, Marie lived under an assumed identity, forced to accept shelter wherever she found it. Always on the run, never certain whom she could trust,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April 1943, Nazi and local police entered an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto to deport and exterminate the remaining Jewish population of the city. An uprising followed along with other acts of defiance throughout Europe. The book tells the story of Jewish women resistance fighters
9) Silence
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 212 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
x, 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn from his odyssey through France where he talked with people and revisited historical events, the author presents a narrative about France's true involvement in World War II and how the French live with the dark secrets of the war even today.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl — stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
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