Friedman, Tova

Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRI

Blau, Magda Hellinger

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAU, MAGDA HELLINGER BLA

Haitiwaji, Gulbahar

Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAITIWAJI, GULBAHAR HAI

Levin, Carl

Summary: "Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogged pursuit of the truth, his commitment to holding government accountable, and his basic decency. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate is his story - from his early days in Detroit as the son of a respected lawyer to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVIN, CARL LEV

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEVIN LEV

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Levin

Oestreicher, Amy

Summary: Amy Oestreicher was college-bound with ambitious sights on Broadway, when the week before her senior prom, a blood clot caused her stomach to explode, and she nearly died in the emergency room. Waking from a coma months later, she was told she might never eat or drink again. After 28 operations and years without a drop of liquid or morsel of food, Amy's digestive system was miraculously...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Singing Tree Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OESTREICHER, AMY OES

Westover, Tara

Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WES