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HISTORY / Holocaust Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Biography Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Massachusetts Wellesley Hills Sharp Cogan, Martha 1905-1999 Sharp, Waitstill 1902-1984 United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policy 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Jews RescueDobbs, Michael
Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DOBSnyder, Timothy
Summary: "It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 SNYHurowitz, Richard
Summary: In the Garden of the Righteous chronicles extraordinary acts at a time when the moral choices were stark, the threat immense, and the passive apathy of millions predominated. Deeply researched, it focuses on ten remarkable stories. These heroes provided hiding places, participated in underground networks, refused to betray their neighbors, and secured safe passage to save the persecuted. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HURJoukowsky, Artemis A. W.
Summary: "Official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving the lives of countless refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2016