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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 333
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reprints the Definitive Edition authorized by the Frank estate, in a volume that features a new introduction by National Book Award finalist Francine Prose and a chronology of Anne Frank's life and times.
3) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to less-appreciated movies like Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating tour through Rome's centuries-old Jewish community with more than 100 simple, deeply flavorful, vegetable-forward recipes. "Naming the book Portico is my way of saying, 'Welcome. I'm glad you are here.'" A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana within the pages of her new cookbook. Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen features over 100 deeply flavorful recipes and beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edith Hahn, an outpsoken Jewish woman, was forced by the Gestapo into a slave labor camp. When she returned home, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. She changed her identity and emerged in Munich as Grete Denner, but she lived in constant, paralyzing fear of the Nazi's discovering her heritage.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A one hundred-year-old Holocaust survivor who, despite all he suffered, calls himself the "happiest man on earth," shares his wisdom and reflects on how he has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance,and kindness.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they were trained, these army recruits knew what would happen to them if they were captured....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...
Author
Publisher
Crown, Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think." --Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of photos : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of a young girl who navigated dangerous forests, outwitted Nazi soldiers, and survived against all odds with the companionship of a stray cat"--Provided by publisher.