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Forman, Gayle

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIE

Lloyd, Toby

Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLO

Gratz, Alan

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2013

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...

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALB

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

Hillman, Robert

Summary: A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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...

Format: text

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...

Format: text

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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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.

Format: text

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

Gillham, David R.

Summary: "What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Thoene, Bodie

Format: text

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...

Format: text

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

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BAL

Prose, Francine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRO

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Wallant, Edward Lewis

Summary: For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called "survivors" could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer. At 45, Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fig Tree Books LLC 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Ferris, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2024

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Fletcher, Martin

Summary: "As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest until he has killed his brother's murderer, a concentration camp guard nicknamed "The Rat." Now he must choose between revenge and love, between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLE

Guttfreund, Amir

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUT

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1972

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Thomas, D. M

Summary: "Pictures at an Exhibition opens in Auschwitz. An S.S. officer, Dr. Lorenz, suffers from severe headaches and calls upon a young Jewish Czech inmate, Galewski, whom he knows to have some understanding of Freudian theory to cure him. Starving and dressed in prison rags, Galewski soon grows accustomed to these c©Ơvilized" interludes, during which he is treated to cakes, Mozart, and the Nazi's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Hunter, Georgia

Summary: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HUN

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