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Compass Press large print book seriesSpiegelman, Art.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPISpiegelman, Art.
Summary: A biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor told in a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. Maus is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.5318 SPIFoer, Esther Safran
Summary: "Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOER, ESTHER SAFRAN FOEBaker, Frank W.
Summary: During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine and Wonder 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAKSpiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SPI
Fremont, Helen
Summary: "Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 and still very much in print, vividly recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought (having herself been raised in that faith), but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREMONT, HELEN FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREEMONT FREFremont, Helen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Press 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5318 FREFremont, Helen.
Summary: Helen Fremont chronicles her struggle to discover her parents' true religious history and discusses how she felt when she realized that her parents had lied about their Catholic upbringing because of their experiences during the Holocaust.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRERaphael, Lev.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Terrace Books 2009