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Belarus Belarus Description and travel Bielski, Asael Bielski, Tuvia Bielski, Zus d. 1995 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Belarus Jews Persecutions Belarus Northeast Passage Description and travel World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance Belarus World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue BelarusFilter By Series
Cultures of the worldTec, Nechama.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia, led by Tuvia Bielski, that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.83 TECBielski, Asael
Summary: Chronicles the rescue efforts of Jewish partisans who fought against the Nazis in the on the Polish-Russian border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIEDuffy, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DUFLevy, Patricia
Summary: Belarus as an official autonomous country only achieved independence in 1991. With a history of conflict, culture, and many different rulers, this former member of the Soviet Union must now strives to balance influence and values from both the East and the West. The people of Belarus have struggled to find a national identity, but today they hold strong to their traditions, language, beliefs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 947.8 LEVFrankel, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 FRALaskin, David
Summary: Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.20973 KAGANOVICH FAMILY LASLoftus, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5405 LOFMarsden, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.8 MARMort, Valzhyna
Summary: "A new collection of poems by a prize-winning poet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MORAleksievich, Svetlana.
Summary: On April 25, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Until now, all of the books published in English focused on the facts, names, and data. Voices from Chernobyl presents first-hand accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. In order to give a voice to their experiences, Svetlana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1799 ALEFatland, Erika
Summary: "The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2021