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Amsterdam (Netherlands) Ethnic relations Ethnic relations Frank, Anne 1929-1945 Frank, Anne 1929-1945 Diaries Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Netherlands Amsterdam Personal narratives Jewish children in the Holocaust Jews Jews Persecutions Netherlands AmsterdamSummary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INLevi, Lia
Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People LeviRichman, Sophia
Summary: A New York psychoanalyst relates her experiences in surviving the Holocaust as a young child, her life as a refugee, her immigration to the United States, and her efforts to cope with the trauma through relationships and writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haworth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 RichmFrank, Anne
Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom FrankCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 FRAFriedman, Henry
Summary: "When the family was liberated by the Russians after eighteen months in hiding, Henry, at age fifteen, was emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria where Henry quickly learned to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities, and mastering the intricacies of the black market. In I'm No Hero, he faces with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRIFrank, Anne
Summary: This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT People FrankLower, Wendy
Summary: "A single photograph-an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family-drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar"-- This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LOWAppleman-Jurman, Alicia.
Summary: Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 APPWiesel, Elie
Summary: Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842 WIESheinkin, Steve
Summary: "From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust-one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 SHEFrank, Anne
Summary: 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. In this definitive 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.5318 FRADobbs, Michael
Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DOBBatalion, Judith.
Summary: "One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 BATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BATMcKale, Donald M.
Summary: Examines the entire history of Hitler's racial war, including the murderous role of the Wehrmacht in the extermination of Jews; Jewish resistance; and the role of German citizens as both enablers and witnesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.004 MCKKor, Eva Mozes
Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KORSummary: Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIAKor, Eva Mozes.
Summary: "A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVEVeidlinger, Jeffrey
Summary: "From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Includes illustrations and maps"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.892 VEIAnsky, S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.308 ANSSummary: The incredible story of thousands of Jews and their dramatic escape from the Nazis to China during World War II. Narrated by Martin Landau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHASummary: A charming but bumbling 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. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 1999
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIF RATED PG-13Hesse, Karen.
Summary: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESSummary: The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the family from their home into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape as a family. But when circumstances forced the family to separate from older brother Ben, their will to survive was put to the test. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022