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Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors Holocaust survivors Interviews Holocaust survivors Rehabilitation Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Jewish children in the Holocaust Laʼu, Y. M. (Yiśraʼel Meʼir)Summary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USLichtenstein, Jonathan
Summary: "In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. Growing up in post-war rural Wales where the conflict was never spoken of, Jonathan and his siblings were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LICÅsbrink, Elisabeth
Summary: "The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life,an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyper-feminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs and back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ASBSummary: "Shoah Ambassadors centers around two local twenty-year-old individuals hearing stories of the Holocaust from survivors themselves. Together, through their own personal expressions of music and sculpture, our ambassadors bridge the chasm between the generation who endured the nightmare of World War II and today's bright-eyed, tech-savvy youths who may have only a limited grasp of what their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SHOWouk, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 WOUClifford, Rebecca
Summary: Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them--as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children--often branded "the lucky ones"--had to struggle to be able to call themselves "survivors" at all. Challenging our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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Summary: Timothy Ryback explores the ways in which the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of the world associates with gas chambers and mass graves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RYBLevy, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVSummary: Documentary about Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein, a devoted son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of U.S. and Israeli Mid-East policy, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein has been steadfastly at the center of many intractable controversies, including the recent denial of his tenure at DePaul University. He's called a lunatic and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AME
Shamir, Yoav
Summary: Follows Shamir as he attempts to determine the current state of antisemitism; includes talks with members and critics of the Anti-defamation League, a trip to Auschwitz with Jewish school-children, and a visit to Brooklyn to investigate reports of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEFContents: Memorial candles / Mindy Weisel -- Transforming a legacy of loss / Eva Fogelman, Ph.D. -- Normal / Helen Epstein -- My life in music / Patinka Kopec -- Journey to the planet of death / Hadassah Lieberman -- It isn't easy being happy / Kim Masters -- Kicking and weeping / Deb Filler -- Traces along a broken line / Vera Loeffler -- Keeping the family name alive / Aviva Kempner -- Family mythology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 DAURose, Daniel Asa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ROSLaʼu, Y. M. (Yiśraʼel Meʼir)
Summary: Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Publishing 2011