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Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 1
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English
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"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....
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English
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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 introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
7) Night
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English
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Wiesel's account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps, including a new preface is which he reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.
8) Judaism
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Publisher
P. Bedrick
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Examines the historical development of Judaism from the age of the patriarchs to the birth of Israel, and looks at how the Jewish faith is practiced in the modern world.
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English
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George Eliot's last, most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda aroused scandal when it first appeared in 1876. What begins as a passionate love story takes a surprising turn into the hidden world of the early Zionist movement in Victorian England. The story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda and the enchanting Gwendolen Harleth, whom many critics consider to be George Eliot's finest creation....
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The war that saved my life volume 2
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English
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"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
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English
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"It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately...
12) White bird
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandma's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A collector's edition of the 1971 musical about Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the village of Anatevka in anti-Semitic, czarist Russia, who relies on love, pride, and faith to help him deal with the vexations of a scolding wife, five unmarried and willful daughters, and God.
17) The butterfly
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
19) Diario
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.
20) Masada
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Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of Masada, from the building of Herod's Temple through its use by Zealots as a refuge from the Romans to its rediscovery in the mid-20th century.
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