Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Time out of Joint	Roland Hill	Autobiography of well-known German-born newspaper correspondent and writer Roland Hill who, a jewish teenager, fled from the nazis to London, participated in the allied invasion of Normandy and on hi…	OL114034W
The pages In between	Erin Einhorn	In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navi…	OL11929214W
The journey that saved Curious George	Louise Borden	In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among the…	OL15162160W
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
Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature	David Patterson,Alan L. Berger	"This encyclopedia presents the lives and works of 128 writers whose contributions lend significant first-generation understanding to the Holocaust. Arranged by author, entries provide a biographical…	OL18169130W
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
Die grosse Angst unter den Sternen	Johanna Kang,Jo Hoestlandt,Tatjana Michaelis	Eine alte Frau erinnert sich an das Jahr 1942, als in Paris ihre jüdische Freundin Lydia verschwunden ist.	OL24155893W
Zwei Leben	Vikram Seth	Seth erzählt die Liebesgeschichte von seinem indischen Onkel Shanti, der in den 30er-jahren für seine Ausbildung nach Berlin geht und von den Nazis nach London verdrängt wird und seiner jüdischen Tan…	OL24721517W
Between dignity and despair	Marion A. Kaplan	Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. This de…	OL2743405W
Julek und die Dame mit dem Hut	Uri Orlev	Kinder und Jugendliche.	OL27742026W
Hebräische liturgische Poesien zu den Judenverfolgungen während des Ersten Kreuzzugs	Avraham Fraenkel,Peter Sh Lehnardt,Abraham Gross	About Hebrew religious poetry written in Germany in the 11th century.	OL32378280W
The war against the Jews, 1933-1945	Lucy S. Dawidowicz	The systematic annihilation of six million Jews during World War II is the single most horrifying event of the twentieth century. Though much has been written on this subject of overwhelming terror a…	OL4278939W
Damals war es Friedrich	Hans Peter Richter	Friedrich (initially published in German as Damals war es Friedrich) is a novel about two boys and their families as they grow together during Hitler's rise to power and reign in Germany in t…	OL5268553W
The Righteous	Martin Gilbert	"Having chronicled the horrors of Nazi-dominated Europe in major works on the Holocaust and the Second World War, the distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert now turns his attention to the subject…	OL582143W
Hitler's war against the Jews	David A. Altshuler	Discusses the growth of anti-Semitism in Germany from the sixteenth century until the Holocaust during the twentieth century. Includes topics for discussion.	OL6797620W
Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble	France Pruitt As Told to Judy Priven	This book tells the story of a nominally Jewish Belgian family who spent more than four years during the Second World War as refugees in the south of France. The narrator was five years old when the …	OL9719681W