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Clara's war Clara's war Clara Kramer A young girl's true story of miraculous survival under the NazisOn 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the sa… OL11979602W
Defy the darkness Defy the darkness David Kohn,Joe Rosenblum,Joe Rosenblum This is the story of a young man caught in the whirlwind of the Holocaust, who survives a chain of events so harrowing they almost defy belief. As a boy, Joe Rosenblum watches as the Nazi overlords t… OL12379566W
The zookeeper's wife The zookeeper's wife Diane Ackerman The time is 1939 and the place is Poland, homeland of Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski. The Warsaw Zoo flourishes under Jan's stewardship and Antonina's care. When their country is… OL12898W
Juif aujourd'hui Juif aujourd'hui Elie Wiesel What does it mean to be a Jew today -- in America, in Europe, in Israel? Elie Wiesel, whom both the New York Times Book Review and Le Monde have called "one of the great writers of this generation," … OL14856786W
The Warsaw ghetto uprising The Warsaw ghetto uprising Elaine Landau Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis in the early 1940s, focusing on the final days of fighting prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943. OL15040398W
Angel girl Angel girl Laurie B. Friedman Herman lives in a labor camp. It is World War II, and the Nazis have made him a prisoner. He is forced to work long hours. His only food is soup made of water. Soon he loses the will to go on. Then s… OL15053572W
Every Day Lasts A Year Every Day Lasts A Year Richard S. Hollander,Nechama Tec,Christopher R. Browning Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew - his father's … OL15174231W
In the Lion's Den In the Lion's Den Nechama Tec ew lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust--or provide a more moving portrait of courage--than Oswald Rufeisen's. A Jew passing as… OL15340278W
You saved me, too You saved me, too Susan Kushner Resnick "An extraordinary and literary "love story" between a young mother and a much older Holocaust survivor that celebrates the unique and powerful bonds of friendship. It explores a complex relationship … OL16599958W
Three homelands Three homelands Stanley Kaish,Norman Salsitz "These stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and the subsequent odyssey of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of catastrophe. Brimming with the authe… OL19923354W
New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands Antony Polonsky This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals… OL20929793W
Macadam dreams = Macadam dreams = Gisèle Pineau "Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz … OL2219038W
A Jump for Life A Jump for Life Ruth Altbeker Cyprys The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping f… OL2675321W
The great Jewish cities of Central and Eastern Europe The great Jewish cities of Central and Eastern Europe Eli Valley xix, 538 p. ; 24 cm OL2730899W
The Cage The Cage Ruth Minsky Sender As long as there is life, there is hope After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mothere's brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then… OL4286021W
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
The Enemy at His Pleasure The Enemy at His Pleasure S. Ansky "In late 1914, S. Ansky, the influential Jewish-Russian journalist, playwright, and politician, received a commission: to organize desperately needed relief for Jews on the borderlands, caught betwee… OL8445354W
Who Will Say Kaddish? Who Will Say Kaddish? Larry N. Mayer "Through interviews, photography, reportage, and personal memoir Who Will Say Kaddish? creates a sociocultural portrait of the multilayered community of renewed Jewish life and tradition in Poland th… OL8512665W
The 23rd Psalm The 23rd Psalm George Lucius Salton "In September 1939. George Lucius Salton's (Luzek Saltzman) boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to … OL9251312W
From Auschwitz to Ithaca From Auschwitz to Ithaca Jake Geldwert "Most Holocaust testimonials focus on the wartime experience, to document the atrocities that occurred. What happened during the war clearly is important but also crucial is how subjects come to unde… OL9845532W
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