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Boyne, John

Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOY

Rosenberg, Joel C.

Summary: As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROS

Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAA

Kraus, Otto B.

Summary: Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

Morris, Heather

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal whims of the guards in this place of horror. But now, the allies are closing in and the sisters have one last hurdle to face: the death march from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morris 2021

Donoghue, John

Summary: "A novel of the improbable friendship that arises between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chessplayer in Auschwitz SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Graham, Lily

Summary: It is 1942 and Eva has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Exhausted from standing up for days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there months earlier. But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2021

Morris, Heather

Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Morris, Heather

Summary: "From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOR

Amis, Martin.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create amagic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014

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Thomas, D. M

Summary: "Pictures at an Exhibition opens in Auschwitz. An S.S. officer, Dr. Lorenz, suffers from severe headaches and calls upon a young Jewish Czech inmate, Galewski, whom he knows to have some understanding of Freudian theory to cure him. Starving and dressed in prison rags, Galewski soon grows accustomed to these c©Ơvilized" interludes, during which he is treated to cakes, Mozart, and the Nazi's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Amis, Martin

Summary: A fictionalized look at the Holocaust told from the human perspective of four different characters: Paul Doll, commandant of a concentration camp; his wife, Hannah Doll, who is far more aware of what is going on around her than her husband realizes; Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, the privileged nephew of Hitler's personal secretary who falls for Hannah; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner who works at the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AMI

Gross, Andrew

Summary: "1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRO

Boyne, John

Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BOY

Iturbe, Antonio

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ITU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ITU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ITU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Iturbe 2017

Morris, Heather

Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners and used the job's freedom of movement to trade items taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOR

Morris, Heather

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Escobar, Mario

Summary: In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of policemen break into her house. The policemen want to haul away her gypsy husband and their five children. The police tell Helene that as a German she does not have to go with them, but she decides to share the fate of her family. After convincing her children that they are going off to a vacation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESC

Boyne, John

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fearat their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Morris, Heather

Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Cambron, Kristy.

Summary: Manhattan art dealer Sera James' discovery of a portrait of a Holocaust victim leads her to search for the story of the painting's subject, an aristocratic Austrian violinist whose efforts to smuggle Jews out of Vienna put her in Auschwitz.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Christian Pub 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CAM

Iturbe, Antonio

Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ITU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Itu

Boyne, John

Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Boyne 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOY

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC Boy

Konar, Affinity

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee Boudreaux Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KON

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Konar 2016

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