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41) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
This is a biography of Anne Frank, including the historical events which forced her to hide with her family in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1939, as the Nazi occupation grew from threat to reality, the Jewish population throughout Europe faced heart-wrenching decisions to flee and lose their homes or to go into hiding, hoping against all odds to avoid the fate of being discovered. Holocaust survivor Flory A. Van Beek faced this terrible choice, and in this poignant testament of hope she takes us on her personal journey into one of history's darkest hours.
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Description
In a memorable scene in the film Schindler's List, viewers the world over witnessed the clandestine marriage of two Jews in the Plaszow concentration camp. Those two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau. At once a tale of horror and beauty, the book is one man's memoir of a miracle: the bloom of love in the depths of a Nazi concentration camp. Full of stories and drawings depicting, among other scenes, the bombing of Krakow, Bau's brother's daring exploits...
49) Catherine's War
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The stories of righteous gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust are becoming better known with every passing year. Millions have seen the movie Schindler's List, about Oskar Schindler, the righteous German who saved hundreds of Jewish workers in his forced-labor factory under the noses of the Nazis. Many have heard of Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest at the end of World War Two. Here we find...
53) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the kindertransport : a memoir of music, love, and survival
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In this remarkable memoir, world-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the inspiring story of her mother's journey through World War II... and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter: the gift of music.
56) Bent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
A play about the persecution of homosexuals in Germany. Moving from a Berlin flat in 1934 to Hitler's camps, it discusses the horror of European history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In 1958, in Linz, Austria, demonstrators interrupted a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, claiming that Anne Frank never existed. Determined to prove otherwise, Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, set out to find the Gestapo officer who arrested the Franks years before.