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La Nuit La Nuit Elie Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie… OL14856842W
Das Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen 1936-1945 Das Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen 1936-1945 Astrid Ley,Günter Morsch Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung der "Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten" und der "Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen". OL15392414W
And justice for all And justice for all John Tateishi Recorded interviews with twenty-five Japanese Americans, who were among the 120,000 detained in relocation camps during World War II, reveal the scope of suffering and injustice involved. OL15860300W
The girl who survived The girl who survived Bronia Brandman Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with … OL16527595W
Renicci 1943. Internati anarchici Renicci 1943. Internati anarchici Giorgio Sacchetti Renicci è stata una vergogna tutta italiana, protrattasi oltre il 25 luglio. Questo volume, punto di arrivo di un percorso di studi e ricerche trentennale, si pone l’obiettivo di mantenere viva la me… OL16808808W
Branded by the Pink Triangle Branded by the Pink Triangle Ken Setterington A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison se… OL17584817W
The Priest Barracks The Priest Barracks Guillaume Zeller At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics—… OL17762899W
El Holocausto de Los Republicanos Españoles El Holocausto de Los Republicanos Españoles Eduardo Pons Prades De los diez millones de seres humanos que fallecieron en las cámaras de gas y los hornos crematorios de los campos de concentración nazis, unos veinticinco mil eran españoles, de los que sobreviviría… OL17811424W
The Enormous Room The Enormous Room E. E. Cummings The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an … OL1847491W
Mestizas Mestizas Affinity Konar "Pearl y Stasha son gemelas. Idénticas, inseparables, incluso pueden sentir y soñar lo mismo. A sus doce años, la guerra las arrastra a la vida adulta: ambas son llevadas a Auschwitz, junto con su ma… OL19731585W
Mapping the bones Mapping the bones Jane Yolen It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, an… OL19734268W
Echoes Echoes Danielle Steel Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss… OL19738W
Hello Maggie! Hello Maggie! Shigeru Yabu The author tells about his and his family's experiences as Japanese American internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming from 1942 to the end of World War II. During that time, he ma… OL20016500W
Un-American Un-American Richard Cahan In 1942 more than 109,000 Japanese Americans, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, were picked up and sent to incarceration centers, most for the duration of the war. It was the shame of America-- and it … OL20042716W
The lost history of stars The lost history of stars Dave Boling Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thi… OL20058506W
The Death's Head Chess Club The Death's Head Chess Club John Donoghue SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front. After being badly wounded he is fit only for administrative duty and his first and most pressing task is to improve flagg… OL20864766W
Today is not your day Today is not your day Marian Thurm With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters-every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her … OL21540125W
How much do you love me? How much do you love me? Paul M. Tag James and Keiko marry quickly before James goes to World War II and Keiko to an internment camp. Sixty years later their daughter Kazuko, born in the camps, uncovers a secret that could overwhelm the… OL23185884W
Geschichten aus Dachau Geschichten aus Dachau Joseph Rovan An autobiographical account by a German Jew (later professor of German history and political sciences at the Sorbonne) who was arrested for resistance activities in France in 1944 and sent to Dachau.… OL24266952W
Kumpel Kumpel Bob Guess Almost half a million enemy soldiers were held prisoner in camps across the United States during World War II. Kumpel (German for buddy) is the story of one such camp; Otto Becker, a German soldier b… OL24275849W
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