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Clara's war
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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… |
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In the Polish secret war
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Marian S. Mazgaj |
"Born in Poland 1923, Marian Mazgaj was just a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II. Although he was too young to join the army, within a few … |
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Joseph Rotblat
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Reiner Braun |
Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), British physicist and one of the most prominent critics of the nuclear arms race, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 in conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences on… |
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Kaia, heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising
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Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm |
Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw bef… |
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You saved me, too
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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 … |
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
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Arthur Allen |
Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory. |
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Chasing portraits
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Elizabeth Rynecki |
"The memoir of one woman's emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II. Moshe Rynecki's body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and … |
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From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall
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Marian Filar,Charles Patterson |
"Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him. "I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, … |
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Helena Rubinstein
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Mason Klein |
This is the first exhibition to explore the ideas, innovations, and influence of the legendary cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein. Madame (as she was universally known) helped break down the st… |
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Bridging the Gap
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Ralph Smorczewski |
xii, 308 p. : 24 cm |
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A dream of belonging
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Janina Bauman |
202 p. ; 20 cm |
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Man in the middle
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Witold Sagajllo |
On the first of September 1939 forty-five German divisions supported by 15,000 aircraft attacked Poland and two weeks later, under the terms of the Nazi - Soviet agreement, the Russians occupied east… |
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The Lost Childhood
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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. |
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The labyrinth of dangerous hours
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Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon |
xviii, 152 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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The 23rd Psalm
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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 … |
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From Auschwitz to Ithaca
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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… |
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Mein Leben
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki |
"Marcel Reich-Ranicki was born of Polish Jewish parents in the Polish town of Wloclawek in 1920. At the age of nine he moved to Berlin and it was at school there that he discovered his deep passion f… |
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