Albright, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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 ALBStoessinger, Caroline.
Summary: Collects life lessons by a Holocaust survivor and concert pianist, sharing the wisdom she has gleaned and insights into her resolve to thrive in spite of loss and her choice to harbor no bitterness toward her oppressors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE STOAlbright, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AlbrightWeiss, Helga
Summary: Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: When Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. As he unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of some of the remarkable people who had called this palace home, he began to chronicle the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. He introduces us to optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.71 EISStelson, Caren
Summary: "This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return to Prague afterward in an unsuccessful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 STETaylor, Laini
Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAYEpstein, Helen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EPSKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011