Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A good place to hide 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 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
1944 diary 1944 diary Hans Keilson "An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst … OL19710882W
The Brigade The Brigade Howard Blum November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness fir… OL2710182W
Sonnenblume Sonnenblume Simon Wiesenthal While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, … OL737914W
Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble 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