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Berlin (Germany) Biography Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945 Frenkel, Françoise 1889-1975 Germany Berlin Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Death and burial Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Berlin Biography Jewish women Germany Biography Jews Germany Berlin Biography Large type books World War, 1939-1945 GermanySimon, Marie
Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, MARIE SIMWyden, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5316 WYDFrenkel, Françoise
Summary: In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRENKEL, FRANOISE FREFrenkel, Françoise
Summary: "In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 FREJones, Nigel H.
Summary: Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Willner, Nina
Summary: "In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLNERSummary: Presents the story of Knut, a polar bear born at the Berlin Zoo, whose mother was unable to raise him and who was cared for by the bear keeper of the zoo, with additional information on how polar bears are being threatened by global warming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.78 HatRaven, Margot Theis.
Summary: The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 RavDonner, Rebecca
Summary: Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARNACK-FISH, MILDRED DONSchaap, Jeremy.
Summary: In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four Olympic gold medals and single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. This is the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OWENS, JESSE SCHSchneider, Peter
Summary: "A vibrant look at Berlin--perhaps Europe's most exciting city--since the fall of the Wall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MERSmith, Donald
Summary: "When the Cold War split the German capital of Berlin in half, between East and West, one neighborhood was trapped in the middle. For more than twenty years, the hamlet of Steinstuecken was caught in a tug-of-war between the Americans and the Communists. Steinstuecken: A Little Pocket of Freedom, tells this hamlet's story and examines its impact on the Cold War in Europe. Steinstuecken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acclaim Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMISummary: "On May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Thousand Year Reich were crushed to extinction between Russia and the Allied forces. Join The History Channel in a look back at the individuals and events surrounding this watershed day. It captures both the celebrations and the heartbreak of the end of the European war; chronicling our reentry into a post-Hitler world that could never be the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD V-EO'Reilly, Bill.
Summary: "By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015