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Summary: Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 BERFinkelstein, Daniel
Summary: "An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FINCadbury, Deborah
Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADWhite, Ralph
Summary: The true story of how one Chase Manhattan banker fought to the save the staff of its Saigon branch before the city fell to the North Vietnamese army in the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023