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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Juvenile literature Jewish children in the Holocaust Poland Warsaw Juvenile literature Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Biography Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Poland Biography Juvenile literature Schindler, Oskar 1908-1974 Sendlerowa, Irena 1910-2008 Juvenile literature World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Poland WarsawSummary: This documentary tells the story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II. Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas that allowed hundreds of Jewish families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and other countries. Includes home movies, photographs, film footage, and interviews with Holocaust survivors who owe their lives to Chiune Sugihara.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SUGVinke, Hermann
Summary: Tells the life story of the German army captain who began as a strong supporter of Hitler and changed to a rescuer of Jews and others after witnessing Nazi brutalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 HOSZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westview 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 CRODown, Susan Brophy.
Summary: Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Polands Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust. By the time of her death in 2008, Irena had been honored by the governments of Poland and Israel, Pope John Paul II, and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 SENSummary: Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Edges 2005Rogow, Sally M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granville Island Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.5318 ROGRoy, Jennifer
Summary: "Tells Irena Sendler's story of saving 2,500 children during the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SENSummary: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ZOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Zookeeper's 2017Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoBarber, Terry
Contents: The Nazis' rise to power -- The Holocaust -- Schindler's business -- Schindler's vows -- Schindler's plan -- Schindler's list -- Schindler's factory -- After the war -- Glossary -- Talking about the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grass Roots Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHINDLER, OSKAR BARFriedman, Henry
Summary: "When the family was liberated by the Russians after eighteen months in hiding, Henry, at age fifteen, was emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria where Henry quickly learned to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities, and mastering the intricacies of the black market. In I'm No Hero, he faces with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRINelson, Anne
Summary: "This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust. Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPAAK, SUZANNE NELJoukowsky, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JOUGies, Miep
Summary: Hiding Otto Frank and his family in an Amsterdam office building during World War II, Miep Gies shares a remarkable story of courage and devastation along with the special friendship of a young girl whose memory remains in hearts across the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 GIEOrringer, Julie
Summary: In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORRCambron, Kristy.
Summary: Manhattan art dealer Sera James' discovery of a portrait of a Holocaust victim leads her to search for the story of the painting's subject, an aristocratic Austrian violinist whose efforts to smuggle Jews out of Vienna put her in Auschwitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Christian Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION CAMSchindler, Emilie
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SCHKramer, Clara
Summary: Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KRAMER, CLARA KRAVaughan, Marcia K.
Summary: "The story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes afterword, author's note, sources, and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 VAUSummary: Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DEFSummary: The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCH RATED RAckerman, Diane.
Summary: The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Fife Lake
2 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 AckAckerman, Diane.
Summary: When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2007