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1) Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl

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The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

2) Schindler's list

Author

Keneally, Thomas

Formats

Book, Large Print

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A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...

3) Anne Frank Remembered

Author

Gies, Miep

Pub. Date

1987

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The story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank Family during the holocaust.

4) Anne Frank

Author

Tames, Richard

Series

Lifetimes

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Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who became famous after her death in the Holocaust, when her diary was published.

5) The Lampshade: A holocaust detective story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

Author

Jacobson, Mark

Pub. Date

2010

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The origins of this story go back to Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp, where Isle Koch, the sadistic wife of the commandant, developed a liking for things (gloves, lampshades) made out of human skin. Flash forward to the present: the author receives a strange artifact in the mail from a friend: a lampshade that appears to be made from human skin. This fascinating and frequently unsettling book chronicles Jacobson's quest to find a proper home...

6) The Holocaust: the fire that raged

Author

Rossel, Seymour

Series

Venture

Pub. Date

1989

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Discusses the historical background, from the Treaty of Versailles through Hitler's rise to power, that led to the horrible and systematic slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis during World War II.