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Teen witnesses to the HolocaustFrank, Anne
Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom FrankCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 940.5318 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 FRASarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARAyer, Eleanor H.
Summary: Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 AYEEger, Edith Eva
Summary: "Edie is a talented dancer and skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympics. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her place in a family where she's considered the daughter "with brains but no looks," Edie's too busy to dwell on the state of the world. But life in Hungary in 1943 is dangerous for a Jewish girl. Just as Edie falls in love for the first time, Europe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 EGEWaisman, Robert
Summary: "A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAIRajchman, Chil.
Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RAJCHMAN, CHIL RAJSummary: Eva Kor, who along with her twin sister endured the experiments of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, decides to forgive him and other perpetrators in order to help herself emotionally heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. Also includes Gerda Klein's Academy Award acceptance speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIBab Bonde, Jessica
Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BABFiges, Eva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granta 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FIGES, EVA FIGProse, Francine
Summary: Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE PROBonelli, Charlotte
Summary: "This remarkable collection of letters between German Jews trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the United States offers rare insights into the challenges of an average American family responding to desperate requests for refuge and aid"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BONFeuchtwanger, E. J.
Summary: "An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEUCHTWANGER, E.J. FEUFried, Hedi
Summary: Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble, an imprint of Scribe Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 FRIFriedman, Tova
Summary: Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Bio FriedmanSummary: "Shoah Ambassadors centers around two local twenty-year-old individuals hearing stories of the Holocaust from survivors themselves. Together, through their own personal expressions of music and sculpture, our ambassadors bridge the chasm between the generation who endured the nightmare of World War II and today's bright-eyed, tech-savvy youths who may have only a limited grasp of what their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SHOFrankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil)
Summary: Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2006
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Summary: An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness (Edith Eger, author of 'The Choice and The Gift').
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRE, SELMA VAN DE PERSummary: The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHOHeilman, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Calgary Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HeilmClendinnen, Inga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1999