Nasaw, David
Summary: Documents the experiences and fates of the one million concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers and political prisoners left in Germany after World War II who spent years as displaced refugees in unsupported, segregated, and poorly converted buildings while the world's nations refused shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 NASDwork, Deborah.
Summary: Discusses the legal and illegal ways that millions of Jews managed to leave Germany, the challenges they faced, and the diversity of the refugee experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 DWOThoene, Bodie
Summary: As Nazi forces tighten their net of evil over Europe in 1940, famed Jewish concert violist Elisa Lindheim Murphy escapes from Vienna to England. But both Elisa and her American newsman husband, John Murphy, are convinced that nowhere in Europe is safe from Hitler's seemingly unstoppable forces. As Nazi U-boats patrol and sink Allied vessels in the North Atlantic, Elisa makes a desperate but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THOSummary: The Nuremburg Laws. Anschluss. The Munich Agreement. Kristallnacht. As the Nazi government grew in power, Jews recognized the necessity of emigrating en masse from their homelands in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Which countries would step forward to take them in? This chilling program scrutinizes the 1938 multinational conference in Evian-les-Bains, a half-hearted effort to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Olson, Lynne
Summary: "When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSLochery, Neill
Summary: "When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023