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Heroic animalsClifford, Rebecca
Summary: Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them--as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children--often branded "the lucky ones"--had to struggle to be able to call themselves "survivors" at all. Challenging our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CLISarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARSpiegelman, Art.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPIJarrett, Keith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1977
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JARSummary: One is more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. Follow the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers, and reformers, it exposes the failed "punishment model" and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SURFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGLifton, Robert Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LIFSpiegelman, Art.
Summary: A biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor told in a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. Maus is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.5318 SPISummary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEOrenstein, Ronald I. (Ronald Isaac)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 OREMurphy, Laura T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 MURStoessinger, Caroline.
Summary: Collects life lessons by a Holocaust survivor and concert pianist, sharing the wisdom she has gleaned and insights into her resolve to thrive in spite of loss and her choice to harbor no bitterness toward her oppressors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE STOSpiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SPI
Frankel, Adam P.
Summary: "A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKEL, ADAM P. FRASummary: "In a time when people were ruthlessly persecuted and killed, some were able to make it through alive. Whether it was thanks to lucky twists of fate or the loving sacrifices of others, they lived to tell their stories, which serve as reminders to never allow such a tragedy to happen again. These are the unbelievable true stories of six children, in their own words, of how they survived one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC SHAWaisman, Robert
Summary: "A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAIPellegrino, Charles R.
Summary: Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PELManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people were killed, and many were trapped under the collapsed buildings. When police officer James Symington heard about the attacks, he knew he and his German shepherd, Trakr, had to help. Follow Trakr's lead as he and Symington bravely search and dig through the rubble to help rescue survivors of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 MANRajchman, Chil.
Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RAJCHMAN, CHIL RAJSummary: "Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events of February 14, and a poignant representation of grief, healing, and hope. The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share their emotional journeys that began on February 14, 2018, and continue today. This revealing and unfiltered look at teens living in the wake of tragedy is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 LERHuskins, Denise
Summary: "The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' revictimization by the justice system In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, awoke from sound sleep to a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise and warned Aaron not to call the police or she would be killed. Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021