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Tidings / by Wiechert, Ernst,author.; Heynemann, Marie,translator.; Ledward, Margery B.,translator.;

One of Germany's literary giants, Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was thrown into Buchenwald concentration camp for publicly backing anti-Nazi pastor Martin Nieml̲ler. His final novel, published posthumously, deals with the aftermath of the Holocaust - how the survivors, both victims and perpetrators, seek healing and redemption as they pick up the shattered pieces of their world.

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Brothers; Ex-Nazi concentration camp prisoners;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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Cilka's journey / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;

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Subjects: Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Women prisoners;

Available copies: 81 / Total copies: 92

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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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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: 39 / Total copies: 45

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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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Half-blood blues. [large print] by Edugyan, Esi,author.(CARDINAL)466716;

Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now a jazz legend, is the subject of a celebratory documentary. Two of the original Hot-Time Swingers American band members, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are invited to attend the film's premier in Berlin. As they return to the landscape of their past friendships, rivalries, loves and betrayals, Sid, the only witness to Falk's disappearance who has always refused to speak about what happened, is forced to break his silence. Sid recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars, and the salons of Paris, telling his vibrant and suspenseful story in German American slang.

Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Jazz musicians; Multiracial people; Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Reunions; Prisoners of war;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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El viaje de Cilka / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873; Rey, Santiago del,translator.(CARDINAL)692128; Díez Pérez, Ma. José(María José),translator.(CARDINAL)832836;

"The new novel by Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist at Auschwitz. A novel based on an extraordinary true story of love and survival. Beauty was her doom and love was her salvation. At just sixteen years old, the Jewish prisoner Cilka Klein was Becoming the concubine of one of the Auschwitz-Birkenau commanders, she was saved from starvation, illness or in the gas chambers, but, after liberation, was accused of collaborating and spying on the NKVD, the brutal Soviet secret police. And so, for the second time in three years, Cilka is once again crowded into a cattle train that will transport her to Vorkuta, the Siberian gulag located ninety-nine miles from the Circle where she will have to meet more than ten years. Conviction of forced labor. Fortunately, Cilka manages to become an assistant in the gulag's infirmary and there she meets Ivan Kovac, convalescing due to mistreatment and malnutrition, and little by little they fall in love. Cilka will discover her cap human acity for love, generosity and survival, and I will keep hope alive in this terrible and desolate place."--Provided by publisher."La nueva novela de Heather Morris, autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Una novela basada en una extraordinaria historia real de amor y supervivencia. La belleza fue su condena y el amor su salvaci̤n. Con solo diecišis ąos, la prisionera jud̕a Cilka Klein fue convertida en la concubina de uno de los comandantes de Auschwitz- Birkenau. Se salv̤ de morir de hambre, enfermedad o en las c̀maras de gas, pero, tras la liberaci̤n, fue acusada de colaboradora y esp̕a ante la NKVD, la brutal polic̕a secreta sovǐtica. Y as̕, por segunda vez en tres ąos, Cilka se encuentra de nuevo hacinada en un tren de ganado que la transportar̀ a Vorkuta, el gulag de Siberia situado a noventa y nueve millas del C̕rculo en el que deber̀ cumplir con m̀s de diez ąos de condena de trabajos forzados. Por fortuna, Cilka consigue convertirse en ayudante en la enfermer̕a del gulag y all̕ conocer̀ a Ivan Kovac, convaleciente a causa del maltrato y la desnutrici̤n, y poco a poco se enamoran. Cilka descubrir̀ su capacidad humana para el amor, la generosidad y la supervivencia, y lograr̀ mantener viva la esperanza en este terrible y desolado lugar."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Spanish language materials.; Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Materiales en español.; Ficción histórica.; Ficción.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Women prisoners; Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Birkenau (Campo de concentración); Prisioneras; Ex reclusos del campo de concentración;

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All the horrors of war : a Jewish girl, a British doctor, and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen / by Lerner, Bernice,author.(CARDINAL)461168;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-253) and index.First Witness, The Belsen Trial (Fall 1945) -- Spring (March, April, May) 1944 -- Summer (June, July, August) 1944 -- Fall (September, October, November) 1944 -- Winter (December, January, February) 1944-1945 -- Spring (March, April, May) 1945 -- Seasons After: Healing and Redemption -- Epilogue."Author Bernice Lerner follows Glyn Hughes, a British officer and doctor, and Rachel Genuth, a Romanian Jewish girl, as they moved (or were moved) across Europe in the final brutal year of World War II. Although the two never met, Hughes's commitment to saving as many prisoners of Bergen-Belsen as possible saved Rachel's life. This book is the first to pair the story of a Holocaust survivor with that of a concentration camp liberator"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Genuth, Rachel.; Hughes, Glyn (Hugh Llewellyn Glyn), 1892-1973; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The Death's Head chess club / by Donoghue, John,1956-author.(CARDINAL)409788;

"A novel of the improbable friendship that arises between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chessplayer in Auschwitz SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner learns that chess is also played among the prisoners, and there are rumors of an unbeatable Jew known as "the Watchmaker." Meissner's superiors begin to demand that he demonstrate German superiority by pitting this undefeated Jew against the best Nazi players. Meissner finds Emil Cle;ment, the Watchmaker, and a curious relationship arises between them. As more and more games are played, the stakes rise, and the two men find their fates deeply entwined. Twenty years later, the two meet again in Amsterdam--Meissner has become a bishop, and Emil is playing in an international chess tournament. Having lost his family in the horrors of the death camps, Emil wants nothing to do with the ex-Nazi officer despite their history, but Meissner is persistent. "What I hope," he tells Emil, "is that I can help you to understand that the power of forgiveness will bring healing." As both men search for a modicum of peace, they recall a gripping tale of survival and trust. A suspenseful meditation on understanding and guilt, John Donoghue's The Death's Head Chess Club is a bold debut and a rich portrait of a surprising friendship"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazis; Chess players; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4

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The day will pass away : the diary of a Gulag prison guard, 1935-1936 / by Chistyakov, Ivan,author.(CARDINAL)633602; Tait, A. L.,translator.(CARDINAL)762232; Shcherbakova, I. I.(Irina I.),writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)465452;

"Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this remarkable diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system. At the back of these exercise books there is a blurred snapshot and a note, "Chistyakov, Ivan Petrovich, repressed in 1937-38. Killed at the front in Tula Province in 1941." This is all that remains of Ivan Chistyakov, a senior guard at the Baikal Amur Corrective Labour Camp. Who was this lost man? How did he end up in the gulag? Though a guard, he is a type of prisoner, too. We learn that he is a cultured and urbane ex-city dweller with a secret nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary Russia. In this diary, Chistyakov does not just record his life in the camp, he narrates it. He is a sharp-eyed witness and a sympathetic, humane, and broken man. From stumblingly poetic musings on the bitter landscape of the taiga to matter-of-fact grumbles about the inefficiency of his stove, from accounts of the brutal conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness, this diary is an astonishing record--a visceral and immediate description of a place and time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern Russia, and modern Europe"--Google Books.(WorldCAT)

Subjects: Diaries.; Chistyakov, Ivan; Internment camp guards; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Political prisoners;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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