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The redhead of Auschwitz : a true story / by Birnbaum, Nechama,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos and surrounded by hopelessness, Rosie realizes the only thing the Nazis cannot take away from her is the fierce redhead resilience in her spirit. When all of her friends conclude they are going to heaven from Auschwitz, she remains determined to get home. She summons all of her courage, through death camps and death marches to do just that.
Subjects: Biographies.; Greenstein, Rachel.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Jewish women in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews, Romanian;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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A Simple Girl : stories my grandmother told me / by Flagg, Josh.(CARDINAL)603628; Flagg, Edith,1919-2014.(CARDINAL)603627;
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Jews, Romanian; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fashion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I am the storm : my odyssey from the Holocaust to the frontiers of medicine / by Avram, Morrell M.(Morrell Michael),1929-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216)."Morrell Avram, born in Bucharest, could have easily become one of the 200,000 Romanian Jews killed by the German Nazis or their Romanian allies. I AM THE STORM is the riveting true story of how he survived--and later triumphed as a pioneering doctor--through a combination of grit and persistence. At age 11, Avram was separated from his mother and baby sister because the US Embassy would only allow them to immigrate on the condition that they leave Morrell and his father behind. What the family hoped would be a brief separation became six terrifying years. Amid the horrors of the war, Morrell had to fend mostly for himself, shuttling from relative to relative, hiding place to hiding place. Among his close calls: He longed to buy a ticket on the Struma, a ship taking Jewish refugees from Romania to Palestine, that was torpedoed and sank along with many of his friends. He walked into his bar mitzvah ceremony with dozens of Nazi soldiers stationed outside the synagogue. He was strafed and nearly killed by an American warplane. Upon finally escaping Romania and reuniting with his mother and sister, Avram faced a host of new challenges in New York. After getting through high school with minimal English, he was thrilled to get into college but found it impossible to juggle classes while working to help support his family. By age 21, it looked as if his dream of becoming a doctor was doomed. But relief came from an unlikely source--a draft notice from the US Army, which transformed him from an anxious "subway rat" into a focused soldier, driven by the words of his drill sergeant: "You are the storm! You are invincible!" Avram's unlikely journey continued as a med student in Brussels and Geneva, as a young doctor in Brooklyn, and as one of the leaders of the new field of nephrology. He became a pathbreaking specialist in dialysis and kidney transplants, saving tens of thousands of patients personally and millions more through treatments he helped devise."
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Avram, Morrell M. (Morrell Michael), 1929-; Jews, Romanian; Nephrologists;
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Chicken dreaming corn : a novel / by Hoffman, Roy,1953-(CARDINAL)332893;
At turns lyrical, comic, and melancholy, this tale about a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper in 1916 on the immigrant blocks of Mobile, Alabama, captures the strivings of ordinary folks for sustenance, for the realization of their hopes and dreams.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Jews; Children of immigrants; Romanian Americans; Jewish families; Antisemitism; Immigrants; Violence; Jewish fiction.;
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No return address : a memoir of displacement / by Vlasopolos, Anca,1948-(CARDINAL)726458;
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Subjects: Autobiographies.; Vlasopolos, Anca, 1948-; Literary historians; English teachers; Romanian Americans; Jews; Jewish families;
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The almost legendary Morris sisters : a true story of family fiction / by Klam, Julie,author.(CARDINAL)344475;
"Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California - a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J.P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family - and herself - as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam's books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer's journey into her family's past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learned about herself along the way"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Morris, Selma, 1893-1991.; Morris, Malvina, 1900-1994.; Morris, Marcella, 1901-1997.; Morris, Ruth, 1904-1978.; Morris family.; Romanian Americans; Jewish women; Jews;
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Jagendorf's Foundry: a memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944. by Hirt-Manheimer, Aron,1948-; Jagendorf, Siegfried,1885-1970.;
Subjects: Jews;
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Breathturn into timestead : the collected later poetry : a bilingual edition / by Celan, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)713157; Joris, Pierre,translator.(CARDINAL)724913;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-642) and index."Haunting poems from one of the twentieth century's groundbreaking poets Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created brilliant works of pure musicality and stark imagery in tension with the haunting memories of his life as a Romanian Jew during the Holocaust. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers the five final volumes of his life's work in a bilingual edition, translated and with commentary by the award-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris. This collection displays a mature writer at the height of his talents, following what Celan himself called the "turn" (die "Wende") of his work away from the lush, surreal metaphors of his earlier verse. Given "the sinister events in its memory," Celan wrote, the language of poetry has to become "more sober, more factual. 'grayer.'" He abandoned the richer music of lyric poems, paring his compositions down to increase the accuracy of the language that now "does not transfigure or render 'poetical'; it names, it posits, it tries to measure the area of the given and the possible." In his need for an inhabitable post-Holocaust world that held the memory and anguish of that history, Celan experimented with a bold new poetics. Breathturn into Timestead reveals a poet undergoing one of the most profound artistic reinventions of the twentieth century--creating a poetry grounded in his painful personal history and the ravages of postwar Europe"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Poetry.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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American Maccabee Theodore Roosevelt & the Jews by Porwancher, Andrew author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ascent -- Romanian note -- Kishinev petition -- Passport question -- Peace at Portsmouth -- Pogroms -- Appointments and immigrants -- Election year."A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives-and his legacy. A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt's deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. As a rising political figure in New York, Roosevelt barnstormed the Lower East Side, giving speeches to packed halls of Jewish immigrants. He rallied for reform of the sweatshops where Jewish laborers toiled for pitiful wages in perilous conditions. And Roosevelt repeatedly venerated the heroism of the Maccabee warriors, upholding those storied rebels as a model for the American Jewish community. Yet little could have prepared him for the blood-soaked persecution of Eastern European Jews that brought a deluge of refugees to American shores during his presidency. Andrew Porwancher uncovers the vexing challenges for Roosevelt as he confronted Jewish suffering abroad and antisemitic xenophobia at home. Drawing on new archival research to paint a richly nuanced portrait of an iconic figure, American Maccabee chronicles the complicated relationship between the leader of a youthful nation and the people of an ancient faith"-- $cProvided by publisher.
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.; Presidents ; Presidents ;
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American swastika / by Higham, Charles,1931-2012.(CARDINAL)148054;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.Origins : the Bund -- The Nazis and America first -- The White book -- The Kennedy connection -- The Capitol Hill conspiracy -- Close-up on sedition -- The father of the little flower -- The plot to kill the President -- The attempt to kill the King and Queen of England -- The White Russian Nazis -- The theft of the Victory Program -- The Pearl Harbor plans -- The Windson plot -- The Sphinx of Sweden -- The man who used Cary Grant -- The Schellenberg conspiracy -- Into the Cold War -- The Romanian connection : Richard Nixon's partner -- The Romanian connection : the bishop of hell -- The Romanian connection : the baron of Silicon Valley -- The Skorzeny plot -- A Nazi in the Pentagon -- Postwar activism -- The sixties Führer -- The road to Barbie -- Barbie -- Epilogue.A study of the connections between Americans and Nazis from the 1930s until after World War II. "Documents the covert activities of Nazi collaborators in the Senate and in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church... the protection of Nazi mass murderers by members of the Roosevelt and other administrations." Father Coughlin and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, leader of the America First movement which opposed U.S. intervention in World War II, were supported financially and politically by Germany. Many Americans accepted the identification of Jews with communism, viewed as a greater evil than Nazism. Describes activities of the German American Bund. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
Subjects: Fascism; National socialism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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