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Immigrant experiencesMills, Bill
Summary: "Full of drama and intrigue, with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink, this is the true story of a German agent sent to the United States during World War I to launch a terror campaign of sabotage and murder, and the American counterintelligence effort that led to his capture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Gardiner, Duncan B.
Summary: Gazetteer of German towns in the former kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine. Includes section on doing genealogical research on Germans in Eastern Europe and on Czech and Slovak research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Historian 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.30893 GARLee-Whiting, Brenda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Juniper Books 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 971.381 LeeMonnig, Alex
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of German immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MONSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 SCHSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 Schenk v.7Schenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 SchEgremont, Max
Summary: "Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the 'Glass Wall' between Europe and Asia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.908 EGRFrayn, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.914 FRAJähner, Harald
Summary: "A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943.087 JAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.087 JAHHarris, Mark Jonathan
Summary: Chronicles the events and people involved in the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi territories, and what happened after the war. Official tie-in to the Warner Brothers documentary. First hand account of the extraordinary rescue mission of 10,000 children before the outbreak of World War II. For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 INTStrassburger, Ralph Beaver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1966
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 ST1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3748 Stras
Brandt, Edward R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3439 BRALee-Whiting, Brenda
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Toronto Press 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 971.381 LEEPrice, Antje.
Summary: Biography of Feodor Protar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaver Island Historical Society 2006
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 PROTAR, FEODOR PRIReaman, George Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 971.3 REAHamilton, Hugo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAMParkin, Simon
Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PARKuegler, Sabine.
Summary: Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles of West Papua, Indonesia. There, as her family struggled for acceptance among the tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, Sabine spent her time swimming with crocodiles, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows, and chewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUEGLER, SABINE KUERoberts, Randy
Summary: "In War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during the Great War through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra;Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard Law Student who was called to service and became an unlikely leader; and perhaps the most famous baseball player of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 ROBWenzlaff, Theodore C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1974
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 OCHSNER WenzlaffSummary: See how the Germanic tribes lived, fought and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as the ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through computer graphics and full-cast reenactments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERBilger, Burkhard
Summary: "What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023