Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Schindler's ark	Thomas Keneally	"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n…	OL10619574W
Passport to freedom	Anthony Leonard Laye	Synopsis Bracha, a 19-year-old Czech farm girl, throws off the shackles of her austere orthodox Jewish life, and runs away to Antwerp in 1936. Four years later, after a failed love affair, she…	OL11964722W
All or nothing	Jonathan Steinberg	Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were united in a `brutal friendship'. Both had savage racial laws; both Hitler and Mussolini viciously denounced the `Jewish menace'. But while in the Second World War …	OL12085498W
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
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
Jamais je n'aurai quatorze ans	François Lecomte	The happy childhood of François Lecomte (born Lévy) ended when, because of persecution of French Jews, he and his mother went into hiding. François's father was arrested, and François ultimately bec…	OL15090272W
The Last Brother	Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand,Nathacha Appanah	Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan	OL15667661W
Epistolophilia	Julija Sukys	“An intelligent, humane, and noble book that rescues from obscurity an intelligent, humane, and noble woman. It stands as a testament to the power of reading, writing, compassion, and extraordinary c…	OL16322640W
His name was Raoul Wallenberg	Louise Borden	An amazing and inspirational World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many.	OL16461427W
A good place to hide	Peter Grose	This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody dema…	OL17090766W
Into the inferno	Yoel Palgi,Phyllis Palgi	"In the spring of 1944, a group of thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to orga…	OL17950345W
Resistance to the Nazis	Jane Shuter	Describes how certain people, both Jews and Gentiles, were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis during the Holocaust despite the price they would pay if caught.	OL19162421W
Das Schaf Charlotte	Anu Stohner	A headstrong sheep rescues the flock when their shephard is injured.	OL19939046W
The envoy	Alex Kershaw	The epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps.	OL19940991W
Eris al rescate	Marilyn Easton	Cragger, el rey de los cocodrilos, tiene un plan secreto; engaña a Laval para que este se quede con el CHI de los cocodrilos, ¡lo que enoja como nunca antes a la tribu de cocodrilos! Eris tendrá que…	OL20004704W
My brother's keeper	Rod Gragg	"MY BROTHER'S KEEPER unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they had to save the Jewish people from the evils of the Holocaust. This unlikely group of be…	OL20046337W
Deník Otty Wolfa	Otto Wolf	The Diary of Otto Wolf, a Jew that was in hiding until 1945	OL2061056W
Defiance	Nechama Tec	The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. …	OL2066467W
The Kasztner report	Rezső Rudolf Kasztner	The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942-1945.	OL32682468W
Raoul Wallenberg	Jamie Daniel	Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.	OL3942320W