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Schindler's list
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Thomas Keneally |
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profitee… |
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Schindler's ark
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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… |
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The pages In between
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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… |
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Hiding from the Nazis
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David A. Adler |
The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis. |
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What's cooking, Jamela?
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Niki Daly |
Jamela is responsible for fattening up the chicken intended for Christmas dinner, but instead she gives it a name and makes it her friend. |
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry |
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the… |
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Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible
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Jeffrey K. Salkin |
Who are the ancient role models for the sacred relationship between Jews and non-Jews today? Now more than ever, gentiles are an integral part of the Jewish community. But they are not new to the Jew… |
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The monuments men
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Robert M. Edsel |
"In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destructio… |
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In defiance of Hitler
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Carla Killough McClafferty |
At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in… |
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The Righteous
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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… |
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Die Schoene Frau Seidenman
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Andrzej Szczypiorski |
An extraordinary novel covering a few days in Warsaw in 1943...or covering most of the 20th century, depending on how you see the book. Although concerned with rescuing Mrs Erma Seidenman--a Jew who… |
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