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The neighbor from Bergen Belsen / by Barzilai, Jacob,1933-author.; Simpson, Philip,1952-translator.(CARDINAL)404279;
1933. Hitler's rise to power in Germany marks the beginning of the end for the Jews of Europe. For little newborn Yaakov, this is only the beginning. Hungary, 1944. 11-year-old Yaakov and his parents and younger sister are forced out of their home into the unknown. They find themselves in the ghetto, living under impossible conditions, until they are banished by the Nazis to Bergen Belsen concentration camp through Austria, what might be their final destination. This is a unique story about the unyielding love of a mother, who fought to protect her two young children from harm while helping every stranger who crossed her path, about belief in God, and the naïve perspective of a child in such a difficult and challenging time.--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Nazis; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Jewish ghettos; Mother and child; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor / by Waisman, Robert,1931-author.; McClelland, Susan,author.(CARDINAL)561091;
"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"--Accelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Waisman, Robert, 1931-; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Child internment camp inmates; Child Nazi concentration camp inmates; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors; Jewish refugees; Jewish children in the Holocaust;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
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The librarian of Auschwitz / by Rubio, Salva,1978-adapter.(CARDINAL)403146; Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin,translator.(CARDINAL)348182; Iturbe, Antonio,1967-author.(CARDINAL)347466; Aroca, Loreto,artist.(CARDINAL)862386; Graphic novelization of (work):Iturbe, Antonio,1967-Bibliotecaria de Auschwitz.English.(CARDINAL)803491;
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Historical comics.; Historical fiction.; Graphic novel adaptations.; Young adult fiction.; Kraus, Dita, 1929-; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camps; Books and reading; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Child Nazi concentration camp inmates; Internment camps;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 28
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The daughter of Auschwitz : the girl who lived to tell her story / by Friedman, Tova,1938-author.(CARDINAL)645454;
"A . . . memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz"--Ages 10 and up.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Friedman, Tova, 1938-; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust survivors; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Birkenau (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camps; Nazi concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 24
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Cilka's journey : a novel / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;
Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child? In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Cilka finds endless resources within herself as she daily confronts death and faces terror. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.--Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Women prisoners;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 22
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The child of Auschwitz / by Graham, Lily,author.;
It is 1942 and Eva has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Exhausted from standing up for days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there months earlier. But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she hears a whisper. Her bunkmate, Sofie, is reaching out her hand... As the days pass, they learn each other's dreams - Eva's is that she will find Michal alive, and Sofie's is that she will be reunited with her son Tomas, who has been sent to an orphanage. Sofie sees the chance to engineer one last meeting between Eva and Michal and knows she must take it even if means befriending the enemy... When Eva realises she is pregnant she fears she has endangered both their lives. But the women are determined to hold on to the last flower of hope in the shadows: their precious children, who they pray will live to tell their story when they no longer can.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazis; Nazi concentration camps; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Internment camps; Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Tattoo artists; World War, 1939-1945; Man-woman relationships; Jews; Jews; Jewish fiction.; Judaism.; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Women; Pregnant women; Mothers; Female friendship; Women.; Womyn.; Mothers.; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Cilka's journey [large print] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873; Matthews, Owen,writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)558434;
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when she was still a child? In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Women prisoners; Jews; Rape victims; Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Women healers;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 45
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The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible... on Schindler's list / by Leyson, Leon,1929-2013,author.(CARDINAL)404266; Harran, Marilyn J.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)730754; Lewson, Elisabeth B.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 232).Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory -- a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List.The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.1000LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated ReaderReading Counts!ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2014.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Young adult literature.; Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.; Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974.; Płaszów (Concentration camp); Jews; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 39 / Total copies: 43
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The traitor's daughter : captured by Nazis, pursued by the KGB, my mother's odyssey to freedom from her secret past / by Spicer, Roxana,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-450).Prologue -- "I am like a wolf, forever looking back to where I came from" -- "I don't want you to romanticize Russia" -- "I've been right in the middle of it. Every face of that rotten war." -- "This story should never be told. Not your mother's story, no." -- "Not everything went according to the heroic-fucking-plan." -- "Girlie, you really landed this time, didn't you?" -- "I wanted to live, I wanted to live.""The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity--but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming. Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now--perhaps forever--lost again. The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Spicer, Agnes.; Spicer, Roxana; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; World War, 1939-1945; Mothers and daughters.; Family secrets.; Russians;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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