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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ITUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuSummary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 GADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 GADEischeid, Susan J.
Summary: This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDL, MARIA EISConfino, Alon
Summary: "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 CONFriedländer, Saul
Summary: The years of persecution describes and interprets the steadily increasing anti-Jewish bigotry in Germany after the 1933 Nazi accession to power. The years of extermination describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRIKaplan, Marion A.
Summary: "Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany." "Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 KAPSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COURyback, Timothy W.
Summary: Timothy Ryback explores the ways in which the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of the world associates with gas chambers and mass graves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RYBCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORSummary: Its the Battle of Berlin, during World War 2, two women find each other. One is single, AimGee, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with 4 children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to AimGee, nothing but trouble becomes the result.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AIMSchwarz, Geraldine
Summary: "Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHWARTZ SCHFrenkel, Françoise
Summary: "In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 FREJaku, Eddie
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio JakuLauer, Betty
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LAUWyden, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5316 WYDFritzsche, Peter
Contents: Reviving the nation -- Racial grooming -- Empire of destruction -- Intimate knowledge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 FRISheinkin, 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"--
Format: text
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 SHELarge, David Clay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LARFallada, Hans
Summary: This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FALBlack, Edwin.
Summary: This volume is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany - beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IMB and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BLAFast, Howard
Summary: Scott Waring's perfect life is shattered when his young bride is murdered by the Gestapo while the couple is honeymooning in Berlin in 1939, and it is many years filled with war and anguish before he is able to overcome the horror of her death and learn to love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1995
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Summary: In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRENKEL, FRANOISE FRELifton, Robert Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1986