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Schindler's list Schindler's list Thomas Keneally Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profitee… OL103688W
Schindler's ark Schindler's ark Thomas Keneally "Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n… OL10619574W
Holocaust Holocaust Deborah Dwork This book is a dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history. Unrivaled in reach and scope, Holocaust illuminates the long march of events, from the Mid… OL15831130W
The Holocaust The Holocaust Marty Gitlin An examination of the Holocaust from its inception to the liberation of the concentration camps and the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere. OL15883292W
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
Escape Escape Allan Zullo Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates … OL16560428W
Witness to the Holocaust Witness to the Holocaust Eisenberg, Azriel Louis Here, in one definitive volume, are over one hundred spellbinding eyewitness accounts of a brutal period in history that claimed the lives of millions of innocent victims. After years of painstaking … OL16785979W
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler Peter Longerich Heinrich Himmler, an unremarkable looking man, was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, h… OL1739232W
1944 1944 Jay Winik It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved t… OL17868571W
E/96 E/96 Paul-Henri Rips The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood: forever. OL17915531W
Journey to nowhere Journey to nowhere Eva Figes "Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives, and their housemaid Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged … OL17915598W
The choice The choice Kathy Clark "Thirteen-year-old Hendrik and his family have hidden their true identity as Jews and are living as Catholics in Budapest during WWII. One day, in a burst of loyalty, Hendrik reveals that his name is… OL17924341W
Margot Margot Jillian Cantor In the spring of 1959, The Diary of Anne Frank comes to the silver screen to great acclaim, and a young woman named Margie Franklin works in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. She live… OL17931878W
The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando Rebecca Fromer Daniel Bennahmias is one of the few persons in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau to have survived the war, and the recounting of his experiences reveals details heretofore unknown about the "i… OL1810383W
Surviving Hitler Surviving Hitler Andrea Warren Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret t… OL1813150W
Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar Erica Fischer Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first … OL1913924W
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Peter Hayes xvi, 412 pages : 25 cm OL19169117W
The girl from Human Street The girl from Human Street Roger Cohen An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Tim… OL19992671W
Perpetrators Perpetrators Guenter Lewy ix, 195 pages : 25 cm OL21144694W
Global Perspectives on the Holocaust Global Perspectives on the Holocaust Wendy Koenig Nancy E. Rupprecht Global Perspectives on the Holocaust: History, Identity and Legacy expands coverage of the Holocaust from the traditional focus upon Europe to a worldwide and interdisciplinary perspective. Articles … OL26197269W
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