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64) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger--devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend--takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself--a...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds.
71) Holy Silence
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
HOLY SILENCE tells the story of the actions - and inactions - of the Vatican in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The film focuses on officials who attempted to influence the pope throughout this period.
Publisher
Teletime Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An emotional and enlightening expose of 2 heroic individuals that experienced the horrors of war, carried the mental and physical scars, faced bitter challenges following battle yet rose to well being through the power of entrepreneurship. A Holocaust Survivor who lost his entire family when he was a child and came up with innvovative and physically challenging methods to survive builds a large business in America. Not even the mob could stop him....
73) The book of Aron
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron - now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick!
One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...
It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in
...75) Austerlitz
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At fifteen, a boy named Dafydd Elias, adopted at four in 1939 and living in Wales, learns that his real name is Jacques Austerlitz. He becomes a student of architectural history, lives an ascetic life in London as a lecturer on art history, takes early retirement in 1991 and belatedly, very belatedly, pursues his past, which takes him to Czechoslovakia. In Prague, Austerlitz discovers that his parents were Jewish, that they shipped him away to safety,...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different--until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. From her time in the children's block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the camps and on into her adulthood, Dita's powerful memoir sheds light on an incredible life--one that is...
77) Creating beauty from the abyss: the amazing story of Sam Herciger, Auschwitz survivor and artist
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Sam Herciger provides us with a powerful Holocaust memoir. It traces the journey of an aspiring young artist who embarks on a quest to find artistic freedom during the danger-filled period of Nazi hegemony in Europe. Sam's life is then caught up in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. His adventures begin in prewar Poland, where Sam grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. It is there that he meets a mysterious figure on the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
93 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on interviews with six Holocaust survivors, these first-person point of view stories relate living through the de-humanization and starvation in concentration camps and the industrial-scale mass murder in extermination camps.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War II, brought to life for through animation. Official Selection at the **Sheffield Documentary Festival.** Official Selection at the **Annecy Animation Festival.**
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