Golabek, Mona

Summary: The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOL

Kim Phúc

Summary: "Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM PHUC KIM

Finkelstein, Daniel

Summary: "An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FIN

Jal, Emmanuel.

Summary: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962.404 JAL, EMMANUEL JAL

Ahmedi, Farah.

Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHM

Maitland, Leslie.

Summary: Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed its harbors. Then, barred from entering the United States, they lived in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53145 MAI

Eder, Mari K.

Summary: "The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII-in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. Liane B. Russell fled Austria with nothing and later became a renowned U.S. scientist...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 EDE

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, VIET THANH NGU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGU

Toubassy, Samir

Summary: The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUBASSY, SAMIR TOU

Ung, Loung.

Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNG

Ung, Loung.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNG

Merriman, Helena

Summary: In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MER

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MER

Pham, Andrew X.

Summary: From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars. Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham's family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0495 PHA

Hochschild, Adam

Summary: "From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leadersof her time"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOKES, ROSE PASTOR HOC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom Stokes

Hamilton, Lisa M.

Summary: This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOUA, IA HAM

Freeman, Hadley

Summary: "Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara had lived in France, just as Hitler started to gain power in Europe, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Until long after her grandmother's death, she found a shoebox tucked in a closet. In it was:a photograph of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger; a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross; and a drawing signed by Picasso. This...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRE

Kidder, Tracy.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KID

Åsbrink, Elisabeth

Summary: "Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA. Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ASB

Wolff, Alexander

Summary: "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOL

Mufleh, Luma

Summary: "It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUFLEH, LUMA MUF

Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Markham, Lauren

Summary: "The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAR

Kirsch, Jonathan

Summary: Describes the life of the teenage Jewish refugee whose shooting of a Nazi diplomat was used as fodder to unleash Kristallnacht and discusses whether he was working alone, as an early resistance fighter, or as a spurned lover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 GRYNSZPAN, HERSCHEL FEIBEL KIR

Paxson, Margaret

Summary: "During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Paxson