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Summary: "A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAISummary: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSBlau, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAU, MAGDA HELLINGER BLAFriedman, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIHirsh, Michael
Summary: At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HIRSummary: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDRajchman, Chil.
Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RAJCHMAN, CHIL RAJHeilman, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Calgary Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HeilmHolden, Wendy
Summary: Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom. Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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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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Place a hold to request this item.Friedman, Tova
Summary: Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Bio FriedmanFiges, Eva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granta 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FIGES, EVA FIGBab Bonde, Jessica
Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BABMacadam, Heather Dune
Summary: On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women--many of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MACFeuchtwanger, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEUCHTWANGER, E.J. FEUSummary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEKlein, Gerda Weissmann
Summary: A Polish Jew records her experiences and struggle for survival in Nazi work camps and during a thousand-mile forced march.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KLESarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024