Ruth Elias, a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, recounts her challenging and unthinkable story of confronting perhaps the most agonizing choice so that she and her newborn infant would not die. Taken...
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
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Auteur:Rothschild, IngeloreSommaire:Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A...
- Auteur:Upjohn, RebeccaSommaire:
Based on a true story. Milek and his brother, Munio, live in a sleepy village in Poland. Anton, an odd neighbour, speaks to animals, feeds the flies, and only eats vegetables, so most people call him the village fool. When the war...
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Auteur:Arato, RonaSommaire:The Last Train is the harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation during the final years of World War II. Living in the town of Karcag, Hungary, the Aratos felt...
- Auteur:Kreuter, AaronSommaire:
In seven-and-a-half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and...
- Auteur:Goldenberg, AnnaSommaire:
In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But...
- Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:
Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the...
- Auteur:Swartz, Sarah SilbersteinSommaire:
Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile.
- Auteur:Harris, RobertSommaire:
Detective novel. Portrays Germany as it might have looked twenty years after winning World War II. When an old man's body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but...
- Auteur:Rosenfarb, ChavaSommaire:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Auteur:Debreczeni, JózsefSommaire:
"Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated The first English...
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Auteur:Lawlor, AllisonSommaire:On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the...
