Clifford, Rebecca
Summary: Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them--as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children--often branded "the lucky ones"--had to struggle to be able to call themselves "survivors" at all. Challenging our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CLIFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGTreuenfeld, Andrea von
Summary: Going Back is divided into 16 chapters, wherein each woman relates her personal story of fleeing Nazis and surviving as refugees abroad, then moving back. The book explores German anti-Semitism then and now. It also examines the refugee experience and Jewish identity before and after leaving. Photographs of the women appear throughout the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TRESarnowski, 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 SARBrown, Don
Summary: In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War. Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 940.53 BROUnreich, Rachelle
Summary: "The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter--a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNREICH, MIRA UNRSummary: The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the family from their home into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape as a family. But when circumstances forced the family to separate from older brother Ben, their will to survive was put to the test. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THEShusterman, Neal
Summary: Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SHUFerris, Emil
Summary: "In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2024
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Summary: During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine and Wonder 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAKMasih, 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 MASSummary: "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 SHOBirnbaum, Nechama
Summary: Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amsterdam Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GREEger, 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 EGERajchman, 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 RAJGreene, Joshua
Summary: "Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEESummary: 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 ONESummary: In the final ten episodes of this terrifying series from the visionary minds of Guillermo Del Toro, Carlton Cuse and Chuck Hogan, nuclear winter envelopes the planet, and a desperate, weakened humanity, existing only as slave labor for 'The Partnership', is controlled by the bloodthirsty strigoi. Meanwhile, the sinister 'Master' grooms Eph's son Zach to rule the post-apocalyptic dystopia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRDweck, 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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Summary: When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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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 Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSMorris, 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 MORSpiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPICorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020