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Dweck, Nicole.

Summary: "Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga in the tradition of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Nomi Eve's The Family Orchard. In 1544, as Inquisition fires rage in Portugal, young José Mendez...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015

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Rosner, Jennifer

Summary: "From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Masih, Tara Lynn

Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MAS

Albom, Mitch

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALB

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Sager, Riley

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SAG

Albom, Mitch

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALB

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ALB

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Balson, Ronald H.

Summary: "The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BAL

Thoene, Bodie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Wachtel, Shirley Russak

Summary: "1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAC

O'Nan, Stewart

Summary: "In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONA

Cantor, Jillian.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: 1959. Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind. Margie is really Margot Frank, older sister of Anne, who did not die in Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who instead escaped the Nazis for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CAN

Blum, Jenna

Summary: In 1960s Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's for the delicious food, impeccable service, and dashing owner and chef, Peter Rashkin. Peter suffers from the terrible guilt of surviving Auschwitz while his wife, Masha--the restaurant's namesake--and two young daughters perished. Although he is considered the most eligible bachelor in town, Peter has resigned himself to a solitary life. Then he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Blum 2018

Baites, Mina

Summary: 1914. For Paul, with love. A Jewish silversmith engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian's mother, telling...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAI

Balson, Ronald H

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Lena Woodward, an elderly woman, enlists the help of both lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to appraise the story of her harrowing past in Nazi occupied Poland. At the same time, Lena's son Arthur presents her with a hefty lawsuit under the pretense of garnering her estate--and independence--for his own purposes. Where these stories intersect is through Lena's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Albom, Mitch

2 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Feldman, Ellen

Summary: A fictionalized account of the post-war life of Peter, who hid in the secret annex with Anne Frank and her family, follows his survival of the Holocaust, his relocation to America, and his memories upon the publication of Anne's diary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEL

Elon, Emunah

Summary: "For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience-unearthing aremarkable story that becomes the subject of his magnum opus. At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELO

Smolens, John

Summary: "A woman recalls surviving the 1927 bombing of the Bath, Michigan, school"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Smolens

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMO

Balson, Ronald H.

Summary: "A "fixer" in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later-by the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras-Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Gillham, David R.

Summary: "1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Gárdos, Péter

Summary: July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence: his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

Morris, Heather

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal whims of the guards in this place of horror. But now, the allies are closing in and the sisters have one last hurdle to face: the death march from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morris 2021

Morris, Heather

Summary: "From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

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