Bornstein, Michael
Summary: In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Here is the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael's life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BORMorris, Heather
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSMorris, Heather
Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners and used the job's freedom of movement to trade items taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorris, Heather
Summary: For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MORBirnbaum, Nechama
Summary: Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amsterdam Publishers 2021
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Summary: "A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREJaku, Eddie
Summary: "Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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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 BLADebreczeni, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BERHeilman, 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 HeilmLeibovits, Sara
Summary: "This is the powerful true story of Sara Leibovits and the incredible pain and hardships she went through during her time in the death camp. Yet despite the horrors she faced, she always tried to maintain her family's values of courage, faith, and kindness to others. In this compelling memoir, Sara's story is intertwined with that of her daughter, Eti. Seventy years after the horrors of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEISonnino, Piera
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SONLevi, Primo.
Summary: First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVBlankfeld, Keren
Summary: "Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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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 Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIND, EDDY DE WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B de WIND DEWFriedman, 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