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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Biography Debreczeni, József 1905-1978 Flight navigators, Military Biography Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies Guernsey Matthews, Stephen R 1938- Childhood and youth Prisoners of war United States Biography World War, 1939-1945 Guernsey World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, GermanDebreczeni, József
Summary: "The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FRANK D. MURMatthews, Stephen R.
Summary: By the time Stephen Matthews was six years old, he had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from Nazi-occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. This memoir is told through Stephen's own experiences as well as writings from his mother's diaries and previously unpublished photos of historical significance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021