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Nicholas Winton's lottery of life
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Matej Mináč |
Details and pictures of the so called “Czech Kindertransport” which saved 669 children from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton, the man known as “the British Schindler”. |
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Refugee Treasure
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Robert Elmer |
In 1947 two teenagers from different backgrounds are thrown together once again as the United Nations votes to create the state of Israel. |
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The Last Brother
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Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand,Nathacha Appanah |
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan |
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A hero of our own
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Sheila Isenberg |
"In 1940, a young Harvard-educated American named Varian Fry, inexperienced and not at all certain that he possessed any courage, went on a secret mission to Marseille. There, with only three thousan… |
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Witness to the Holocaust
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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 … |
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To Hope and Back - The Journey of the St. Louis
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Kathy Kacer |
The tragic true story of the ship St. Louis. It left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba, but was denied port in Cuba, the US and Canada before returning to Europe. w… |
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Margot
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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… |
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Rescuing the children
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Deborah Hodge |
Discusses the efforts of the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries before the start of World War II. |
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Jewish exile in India, 1933-1945
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Anil Bhatti |
Papers presented at a symposium held in Jawaharlal Nehru University, 15-16 Mar. 1995. |
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Generation exodus
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Walter Laqueur |
"Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. … |
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Liberation
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Betty N. Hoffman |
"Discusses the liberation of Europe and the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the displaced persons camps, primary source accounts from Holocaust survivors, and how those survivors started new li… |
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They dared return
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Patrick K. O'Donnell |
A never-before-told World War II story of Jewish soldiers on a dangerous mission within the Third Reich--a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge. |
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The fortunate ones
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Ellen Umansky |
One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Ange… |
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The girl with no name
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Diney Costeloe |
Speaking no English and carrying a precious photograph of the family she left behind in Germany crammed into her small suitcase thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport… |
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Y a pesar de todo--
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Alfredo José Schwarcz |
"Valuable contribution to immigration history examines background, economic integration, degree of adaptation and/or assimilation, interaction with older Jewish groups, retention of culture and langu… |
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The whirlwind
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Carol Matas |
Ben flees Nazi Germany only to find himself in a battle for his life and his soul. |
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Bessie's pillow
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Linda Bress Silbert |
"May this pillow bring you peace. So reads the pillow entrusted, in 1906, to 18-year-old Boshka Markman as she prepares to board a train in Vilna, Lithuania. One of hundreds of thousands of Jewish im… |
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A friend in need
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Kathy Kacer |
Now that Margit and her family have settled into their new life in Toronto's Kensington Market, they agree to take in a Polish orphan. |
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In love and friendship
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Hilary Norman |
"There is a price for everything, Bobbi, and I think the time has come for me to pay the price in full. . .to tell you the truth."
Beautiful Ali Craig had to tell her daughter, Bobbi, that shatter… |
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Reclaiming Heimat
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Jacqueline Vansant |
"In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabe… |
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