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Against All
Hope : Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945
~ Hermann Langbein, Harry Zohn (Translator) / Hardcover / Published 1994
The
first significant study of concentration camp resistance to focus on the
political dynamics of inmates of varying nationalities and classifications.
Langbein, a former prisoner who led an international resistance movement at
Auschwitz, has interviewed scores of survivors to analyze the resistance
movements of the major concentration camps |
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All Rivers Run to the Sea : A Memoir/Audio Cassette ~ by Elie Wiesel
1995
All Rivers Run to the Sea : Memoirs
- Hard Cover
All Rivers Run to the Sea : Memoirs
- Paperback
The long-awaited memoirs of Wiesel, winner of the
1986 Nobel Peace Prize, tell the story of his happy childhood in the
Carpathian Mountains, his subsequent years of hell in Auschwitz and
Buchenwald, and his post-war life in France, where he discovered his voice
as a writer. |
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Anne Frank : Child of the Holocaust (The
Library of Famous Women) -
Gene Brown / Library Binding / Published
1994
Easy-to-read...interesting...presented in a lively, straightforward manner. |
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Auschwitz : A Doctor's Story (Women's Life Writings from
Around the World)
- Lucie Adelsberger, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995
Lest Nazi Germany's
brutalities be forgotten, this understated, appalling book, which first
appeared in German in 1956, ought to remain perpetually in print. This
memoir by Dr. Lucie Adelsberger (1885-1971) presents a lucid picture of
the ordeals suffered by women in particular, through a personal account of
her experience at Auschwitz beginning in 1943.
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Bearing the Unbearable : Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the
Ghettos and Concentration Camps (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and
Culture) - Frieda W. Aaron
/ Hardcover / Published 1990 |
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The Book and the Sword : A Life of Learning in the
Shadow of Destruction ~
David Weiss Halivni / Hardcover / Published 1996
A slim, largely
cerebral, yet sometimes deeply engaging autobiography by a Holocaust
survivor who has become one of the greatest talmudic scholars of the
postwar era. Halivni, professor of religion at Columbia University ist the
author of the nine-volume commentary Sources and Traditions |
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Black Bread : Poems, After the Holocaust
~ Blu Greenberg / Hardcover /
Published 1994
"Will I ever/Be able to/Just shower?" asks Greenberg, the author of two
nonfiction books exploring traditional Jewish values, in her first volume of
poetry. She imbues everyday ordinariness-the teacher riding in a student's
German car, a friend's migraine, a son's ski trip-with terrifying memories.
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Children of
Job : American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust (Suny Series in Modern Jewish
Literature and Culture) ~
Alan L. Berger / Hardcover / Published 1997
Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust
survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust
and contemporary Jewish identity |
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Dawn ~
Elie Wiesel / Paperback / Published 1982
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for
dawn--and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha,
a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in
reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. |
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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition
~Anne Frank, et al / Hardcover /
Published 1995
the paperback edition
the audio cassettes edition
A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid,
insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who
died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. |
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Different Voices : Women and the Holocaust
~ Carol Ann Rittner (Editor), John K.
Roth (Editor)/Hardcover Published 1993
Neither before, during, nor after the Holocaust have women been
silent about the experiences that left them forever marked by the "Final
Solution." Here are 28 selections, some long out of print and some written
this year, brought together to intensify an awareness of the depths of the
Holocaust's tragedy. |
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The Forgotten
~ Elie Wiesel,Stephen
Becker(Translator)Published 1995
``To forget is to abandon, to forget is to repudiate.'' One of the
main themes sounded by Wiesel in his many essays and novels is the
essential function of memory, which allows us to grant dignity and honor
to one life and one death or to many lives, many deaths. |
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The Gates of the Forest : A Novel ~Elie
Wiesel, Frances Frenaye (Translator) / Paperback / Published 1995 |
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In Memory's Kitchen : A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
~ Cara Desilva (Editor), et
al / Hardcover / Published 1996
Of all the documents of the Holocaust, this cookbook compiled from
memory by the female prisoners at Terezin, a way station to Auschwitz, may
be the most remarkableThe manuscript found its way
in 1969 to Anny Stern, the daughter of Mina Pachter, whose poems on
barracks life are also included.
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Mila 18 Vol 1 ~
Leon Uris / Paperback / Published 1983
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent
courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst
of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw
boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. |
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Miriam's
Kitchen : A Memoir ~
Elizabeth Ehrlich / Hardcover / Published 1997 |
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Night ~
Elie Wiesel / Paperback / Published 1982
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the
horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely
on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's
generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. |
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Qb VII ~
Leon Uris / Paperback / Published 1982
In
Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands
trial. In his book The Holocaust --born of the terrible revelation
that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's
extermination--Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also
named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic
inmate/doctors. |
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War and Remembrance
- Herman Wouk / Mass Mkt Paperback
/ Published 1978
War and Remembrance -
hard cover
Continue to follows the various members of the Henry family
in the sequel to The Winds of War. |
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The Winds of War ~
Herman Wouk / Hardcover / Published 1995
The Winds
of War ~Herman Wouk /
Mass Market Paperback / Published 2002
Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become
involved in the events preceding America's involvement in World War II and
captures all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World
War. |
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