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Women in the Holocaust : a collection of testimonies, by Aibeshits, Yehoshuʻa.(CARDINAL)767244;
Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust.;
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Women in the Holocaust / by Ofer, Dalia.(CARDINAL)775937; Weitzman, Lenore J.(CARDINAL)505278;
Includes bibliographical references and index.III. Resistance and rescue. In the ghetto and in the resistance : a personal narrative / Bronka Klibanski -- Living on the Aryan side in Poland : gender, passing, and the nature of resistance / Lenore J. Weitzman -- Women among the forest partisans / Nechama Tec -- Women in the French-Jewish underground : shield-bearers of the resistance? / Renée Poznanski -- Gisi Fleischmann / Yehuda Bauer. IV. Labor camps and concentration camps. One year in the black hole of our planet Earth : a personal narrative / Lidia Rosenfeld Vago -- Women in the forced-labor camps / Felicja Karay -- Women in Theresienstadt and the family camp in Birkenau / Ruth Bondy -- Memoirs of Auschwitz survivors : the burden of gender / Myrna Goldenberg -- The split between gender and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Gendered suffering? : women in Holocaust testimonies / Lawrence L. Langer -- Women in Holocaust literature : engendering trauma memory / Sara R. Horowitz.Introduction : the role of gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer. I. Before the war. Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock. II. Life in the ghettos. The Grodno ghetto and its underground : a personal narrative / Liza Chapnik -- The key game / Ida Fink -- The status and plight of women in the Lodz ghetto / Michal Unger -- Gender issues in diaries and testimonies of the ghetto : the case of Warsaw / Dalia Ofer.
Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Voyages [videorecording] / by Finkiel, Emmanuel.; Adar, Shulamit.; Rovère, Liliane,1933-; Gorintin, Esther.; Films du Poisson (Firm); New Yorker Video (Firm);
Cinematographer, Hans Meier ; editor, Emmanuelle Castro.Shulamit Adar, Liliane Rovère, Esther Gorintin, Nathan Cogan, Moscu Alcalay.From Poland to Paris to Tel Aviv, an intimate and personal story of the quests of three contemporary Jewish women whose lives and intertwining destinies create a moving and poignant story of survival.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films; Jewish women in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors;
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Four red sweaters [audio-enabled device] / by Adlington, Lucy,1970-author.; Wane, Esther,narrator.; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by Esther Wane.Sound files.The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Adult.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Informational works.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Birkenau (Concentration camp); Jewish women in the Holocaust.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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Four red sweaters [sound recording] : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust / by Adlington, Lucy,1970-author.; Wane, Esther,narrator.;
Read by Esther Wane.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other, in fact had never met, each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives. Adlington immortalizes these young women whose resilience, skills, strength, and kindness accompanied them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they endured and a celebration of courage, love, and tenacity, this moving and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Informational works.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Birkenau (Concentration camp); Jewish women in the Holocaust.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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Love carried me home : women surviving Auschwitz / by Miller, Joy Erlichman,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Adjustment (Psychology); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust; Jewish women in the Holocaust;
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My son's secret / by Kagan, Roberta.;
There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story--a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason...as well as German law. When my hidden paradise crumbles like a stack of cards, I must do everything in my power to protect that which is most precious to me. My son's secrets must remain hidden. Before we lose everything.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish fiction.; Jewish women in the Holocaust; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Families; Mothers and sons;
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Before all memory is lost : women's voices from the Holocaust / by Goldenberg, Myrna,editor.(CARDINAL)749750;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This anthology contains separate memoirs - poems, literary pieces, diaries - by twenty different Jewish women that describe their persecution under the Nazi regime during World War II. Separated into four sections - women who survived in hiding, by passing, in the camps and in the Soviet Union - this powerful anthology is united by the common themes of resistance and resilience. Each section is preceded by a foreword by editor Myrna Goldenberg. The women are from various cities, towns and villages in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union, and all immigrated to Canada after the war.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust.; Holocaust survivors.; Holocaust survivors; Jewish women; Jews;
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Sister in sorrow : life histories of female Holocaust survivors from Hungary / by Rosen, Ilana.(CARDINAL)680747; Bloom, Sandy,1955-(CARDINAL)488014;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and indexes.Brainstorming about the life histories of women Holocaust survivors -- Mother-daughter discourse: a literary-psychoanalytical analysis of five life histories -- The Holocaust experience of its listeners and readers: a phenomenological-hermeneutic analysis of ten life histories -- A journey without a conclusion.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Four red sweaters : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust / by Adlington, Lucy,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-318) and index.Introducing four girls -- Part one: salvaged. End of the old, beginning of the new -- Winter can get grim -- When you hear your name, please come forward -- We do not know where it will end -- Weather the storm -- What is going to happen to us next? -- Part two: unravelled. Dressed in as many layers as possible -- What lovely things we made in the ghetto -- Nobody must know -- Who can knit? -- An irresistible urge to flee -- I feel good that I fought -- Part three: remnants. The train seemed to have no end -- In Auschwitz they stripped us of everything -- Battling for survival by sheer instinct -- We had learned to be resourceful -- Memories become your possessions -- So many missing things -- Postscript."The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other-in fact had never met-each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives. Adlington immortalizes these young women whose resilience, skills, strength, and kindness accompanied them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they endured and a celebration of courage, love, and tenacity, this moving and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Informational works.; Illustrated works.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Birkenau (Concentration camp); Jewish women in the Holocaust.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 48
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