Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour Elie Wiesel Contains: [La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit) L'Aube Le Jour OL14856828W
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
Shanghai passage Shanghai passage Greg Patent The author's account of his childhood in Shanghai during World War II and its aftermath. OL15860566W
Se questo è un uomo Se questo è un uomo Primo Levi This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was lib… OL16234842W
A good place to hide A good place to hide Peter Grose This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody dema… OL17090766W
Into the inferno Into the inferno Yoel Palgi,Phyllis Palgi "In the spring of 1944, a group of thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to orga… OL17950345W
1944 diary 1944 diary Hans Keilson "An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst … OL19710882W
From nightmare to freedom From nightmare to freedom Lillian Judd From Nightmare To Freedom - Healing After The Holocaust; is a living example of how individual feelings of anger, hatred and intolerance play into behaviors that can lead up to genocides and how powe… OL24200011W
The Brigade The Brigade Howard Blum November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness fir… OL2710182W
In the face of evil In the face of evil Tema N. Merback "A timeless story of the upheavals of war, the tenacious endurance of love and the resilience of the human spirit. It is an epic journey through the nightmare of the Holocaust - the single most defin… OL28594792W
From my war to your peace. Love, Nonna From my war to your peace. Love, Nonna Monika Sears "Born in Poland in 1939, brown-eyed, dark-haired, and Jewish, Monika was off to a bad start. Her father was marched off and shot in the first few days of the Nazi invasion. Her mother, not knowing wh… OL28945173W
For those I loved For those I loved Gray, Martin. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH MAN WHO LIVES THROUGH WORLD WAR II, AND THROUGH HIS LIFE AFTER THE WAR. OL3067946W
The Lost Childhood The Lost Childhood Yehuda Nir Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics. OL550451W
Revenge Revenge Laura Blumenfeld "In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's des… OL5957760W
The secret ship The secret ship Ruth Aliav The author relates the tremendous obstacles involved in the rescue of European Jews who were being secretly and illegally transported to Palestine on the ship "Hilda" to escape destruction by the Naz… OL6900810W
The Samurai of Vishogrod The Samurai of Vishogrod Shimon Wincelberg During the early 1930s Jacob Marateck (1883-1950), a Polish-born immigrant to the United States, resumed the journal he had begun during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. At the time of his death he… OL7089552W
Sonnenblume Sonnenblume Simon Wiesenthal While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, … OL737914W
Tell no one who you are Tell no one who you are Walter Buchignani Regine Miller was eight when the Nazis began to round up the Jews in Belgium - Her father arranged for her to go into hiding and Regine became Augusta, hiding in one safe house after another througho… OL8119404W
Un sac de billes Un sac de billes Joseph Joffo Ce sac de billes, en 1941, Joseph Joffo le reçoit d'un camarade d'école, en échange de son étoile jaune d'enfant juif. Il a dix ans ; pour lui, c'est un jeu. Mais il faut partir seul avec son frère… OL886244W