Tec, Nechama.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia, led by Tuvia Bielski, that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.83 TECBielski, Asael
Summary: Chronicles the rescue efforts of Jewish partisans who fought against the Nazis in the on the Polish-Russian border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIESummary: As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty, rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov₂s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DUFLevy, Patricia
Summary: Belarus as an official autonomous country only achieved independence in 1991. With a history of conflict, culture, and many different rulers, this former member of the Soviet Union must now strives to balance influence and values from both the East and the West. The people of Belarus have struggled to find a national identity, but today they hold strong to their traditions, language, beliefs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 947.8 LEVSummary: The horrific and harrowing experiences of a young boy coming of age during the brutal German occupation of Byelorussia during the Great Patriotic War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMFrankel, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRALaskin, David
Summary: Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.20973 KAGANOVICH FAMILY LASLoftus, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5405 LOFMarsden, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.8 MARSummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMStambach, Scott
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAAleksievich, Svetlana.
Summary: On April 25, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Until now, all of the books published in English focused on the facts, names, and data. Voices from Chernobyl presents first-hand accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. In order to give a voice to their experiences, Svetlana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1799 ALEKent, Kathleen
Summary: "It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents--none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "A new collection of poems by a prize-winning poet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 FATLow (Musical group)
Contents: Pretty people -- Belarus -- Breaker -- Dragonfly -- Sandinista -- Always fade -- Dust on the window -- Hatchet -- Your poison -- Take your time -- In silence -- Murderer -- Violent past.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop 2007