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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 FRIDebreczeni, József
Summary: "The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: Drawing on an astonishing archive of letters, which revealed life during wartime, a true story follows a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter and underground war hero who spent two years in three concentration camps during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZUUR, SABINE TAYWaisman, Robert
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 WAIPogozhev, Andre♯Ư.
Summary: This book is the remarkable memoir of a Red Army soldier who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, undergoing the daily brutality of the camp as it assumed its sinister shape in the countryside of Poland, yet who escaped the horrors to fully recount his experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 POGAdayfi, Mansoor
Summary: "The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntánamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gauntánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAYFI, MANSOOR ADAParkin, Simon
Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PARSussman, Jeffrey
Summary: "This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SUSCrippa, Luca
Summary: "Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRASSE, WILHELM CRILeyson, Leon
Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Leyson 2013Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : After the Nancy Cruzan case was decided by the Supreme Court in 1990, and ultimately resolved by the Courts of the State of Missouri, the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging nutrition and hydration appeared to many to be as noncontroversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. Even the Catholic Church held that, although there should be a presumption...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 CASSummary: 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 IPerron, Cam
Summary: "The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition andcompensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3576 PERSummary: 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 MUSDando-Collins, Stephen
Summary: "Oflag 64, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp based in Schubin, Poland, was speculated to be one of the only POW camps set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. About 150 American officers lived in the camp in 1943, and by 1945, that number had expanded to 1,500. When the German commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders to march all of his prisoners to west...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 DANFriedman, 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 FriedmanCohen, Roger.
Summary: Describes how 350 American POWs captured during the Battle of the Bulge were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or looked like Jews, and transported to a concentration camp in Germany, where they were put to work as slave labor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War CohenStrauss, Gwen
Summary: "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 STRKleiman, Dena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1988
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Summary: In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVWind, Eddy de
Summary: Journal written in Auschwitz by a Holocaust survivor in the weeks following the camp's liberation by the Red Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B de WIND DEWMcCann, Hugh Wray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor Cove Press 2011