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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Germany Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives Hosenfeld, Wilm Jews Germany Biography Jews Germany History 1933-1945 Large type books Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Biography United States World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Poland WarsawTreuenfeld, 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 TRELee, Carol Ann.
Summary: A portrait of Anne Frank's father discusses his privileged youth, arranged marriage, experiences in the concentration camp, decision to publish Anne's diary, and relationship with the secret annex's betrayer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEEJaku, Eddie
Summary: "Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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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 FIGLauer, Betty
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LAUKirsch, 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 KIRRyback, Timothy W.
Summary: Timothy Ryback explores the ways in which the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of the world associates with gas chambers and mass graves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RYBWyden, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5316 WYDSimon, Marie
Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, MARIE SIMLarge, David Clay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LARSummary: The tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IntLichtblau, Eric
Summary: "The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, hisfamily made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LICWolff, 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 WOLWaisman, 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 WAIFeuchtwanger, 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. FEUSummary: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSChapman, Fern Schumer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.33 CHAMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOBuruma, Ian.
Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUREdmonds, Chris (Christopher Waring)
Summary: "Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EDMONDS, RODDIE EDMSummary: Follows the war crimes hearings from accusation to sentencing, offering insight into the cases of such defendants as Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORVinke, Hermann
Summary: Tells the life story of the German army captain who began as a strong supporter of Hitler and changed to a rescuer of Jews and others after witnessing Nazi brutalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2018