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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cafe Heimat	Louise Jacobs	Klappentext: "Die 22-jährige Louise Jacobs ist immer wieder erstaunt, wie wenig bei ihr daheim über frühere Generationen ihrer Familie gesprochen wird. Obwohl sie als eine Jacobs unabwendbar Teil ein…	OL11701550W
A Red boyhood	Anatole Konstantin	"A childhood memoir of Stalin's Soviet Union that details the daily trials of people trapped in this regime. Left fatherless by Stalin's purges, then forced to flee the Germans and live as an impover…	OL11927093W
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
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
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
Rescuing the Danish Jews	Ann Byers	"Examines the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II, including background on Denmark and the Holocaust, firsthand accounts from the many people involved, and how thousands of Jews were saved …	OL15067289W
Staaten als Täter. Ministerialbürokratie und „Judenpolitik“ in NS-Deutschland und Vichy-Frankreich.…	Michael Mayer	Die eigentliche Zäsur in der Geschichte der Judenfeindschaft in Deutschland fand 1938 und nicht 1933 statt. So lautet das Ergebnis der Studie von Michael Mayer, der erstmals systematisch die deutsche…	OL15157723W
Holocaust	Deborah Dwork	Unrivaled in scope, Holocaust is a story of all Europe, of the vast sweep of events in which this great atrocity was rooted, from the Middle Ages to the modern era. It tells of Nazis and their allies…	OL15301709W
Kristallnacht	James M. Deem	"Discusses Kristallnacht, a four-day pogrom instigated by the Nazis against Germany's Jews, including stories from the victims, witnesses and perpetrators of the attack, and how it marked the beginni…	OL15507956W
Puppet	Eva Wiseman	A fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther and a servant at the jail where Morris Scharf,…	OL15735867W
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
De som falt	Eirik Veum,Geir Brenden	Den Norske Bokdatabasens omtale: Denne boken handler om norske statsborgere som ble nazistenes støttespillere. I overkant av 12000 nordmenn meldte seg til tysk krigstjeneste under annen verdenskrig,…	OL16336521W
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit	Judith Kerr	Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.	OL1742390W
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
The cats in Krasinski Square	Karen Hesse	Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.	OL1847152W
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust	Peter Hayes	xvi, 412 pages : 25 cm	OL19169117W
Far to go	Alison Pick	"When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fier…	OL19946949W
Underground in Berlin	Marie Simon	"Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin …	OL20007974W
The 12-year Reich	Richard Grunberger	Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. In this brilliant history of the Hitler era, Richard Grunberger reveals what life was like for an average citizen. The persuasive influence of the Nazi regime reached…	OL2931838W
Elvina's mirror	Sylvie Weil	In 1097 Troyes, France, fourteen-year-old Elvina reaches out to a shunned family of German Jews, eventually drawing her grandfather, Bible and Talmud scholar Solomon ben Isaac, into helping her new f…	OL3080999W