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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Feuchtwanger, E. J.

Summary: "An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017

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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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Eger, Edith Eva

Summary: Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an internment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph Mengele soon after they arrived at the camp. Hours later Mengele demanded that Edie dance a waltz to 'The Blue Danube' and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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Ross, Steve

Summary: A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018

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Ebert, Lily

Summary: A ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor--and TikTok sensation thanks to her great-grandson--relays the details of her harrowing experiences at Auschwitz and how, after losing so much, she was able to build a new life for her family and herself.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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