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Gale genealogy and local history series ; v. 2Scheiner, Ethan
Summary: At the height of the Cold War, a group of small-town men led their Czechoslovakian hockey team against the powerful Soviet team. At the same time, they inspired their nation's resistance to a Soviet invasion, finding a way to fight back against the authoritarian forces seeking to crush their society. At the heart of this story is the Holík family, who loved hockey and desired freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.9620 SCHHartman, Renée G.
Summary: "Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HARGardiner, Duncan B.
Summary: Gazetteer of German towns in the former kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine. Includes section on doing genealogical research on Germans in Eastern Europe and on Czech and Slovak research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Historian 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.30893 GAREpstein, Franci
Summary: "The captivating memoir of a spirited and glamorous young Jewish fashion designer who survived the Holocaust, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPSTEIN, FRANCI EPSEisen, Max
Summary: This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISEN, MAX EISSís, Peter
Summary: I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.7040 SIS1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 943.7040 SIS
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J 943.7040 SISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB Sis SisCunningham, Benjamin
Summary: "In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely--they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOCHER CUNSchlyter, Daniel M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genun Publishers 1985
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 943.7 SCHAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: The former Secretary of State paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943.71 ALBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.71 ALBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AlbrightGeodeticky a kartograficky podnik v Praze
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geodeticky a kartograficky podnik v Praze 1988
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.3437 GeodetickyMuller, Melissa
Summary: Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE MULAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.71 ALBRIGHT, MADELEINE KORBEL ALBGreenfield, Martin
Summary: "He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face to face with 'Angel of Death' Dr. Joseph Mengele and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFIELD, MARTIN GRENeumann, Ariana
Summary: "In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into themorgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NEUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NEUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NEUMANN NEUUnreich, Rachelle
Summary: "The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter--a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNRSummary: In March 1939, Hitler's army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Boden, a young, blond-haired, blue-eyed captain in the Czech Army, was recruited to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the resistance movement instead, and was later selected to help in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "Butcher of Prague."
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOWHavel, Václav.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.7043 HAVHavel, Václav.
Summary: "As writer, dissident, and statesman, Vaclav Havel played an essential part in the profound changes that occurred in Central Europe during the last decades of the twentieth century, and became a powerful intellectual and political force for the reestablishment of democratic principles and institutions. Now, in this memoir, he recollects the pivotal experiences and ideas of his life. Known in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAVEL, VACLAV WILLevine, Karen
Summary: A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 LEVMacDonald, C. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MACSummary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASAskwith, Richard
Summary: For a decade after the Second World War, Emil Zátopek—“the Czech locomotive”—redefined the sport of distance running, pushing back the frontiers of what was considered possible. He won five Olympic medals, set eighteen world records, and went undefeated in the 10,000-metre race for six years. His dominance has never been equaled. In the darkest days of the Cold War, he stood for a spirit of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZATOPEK, EMIL ASKLewis, Damien.
Summary: "An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014