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The storyteller of Auschwitz / by Curham, Siobhan,(DLC)nb 99135427author.(CARDINAL)352725;
"Stumbling through the terrifying wrought iron gates of Auschwitz, Jewish author Etty Weil longs for her apartment overlooking the Seine, where she used to laugh with friends, her shelves full of records and her beloved typewriter by the wide window. Now she looks on in horror as a young girl, Danielle, is ruthlessly torn apart from her sobbing mother. Etty has always longed for the warm embrace of family: and trapped inside the maze of barbed wire, she takes fourteen-year-old Danielle under her wing and soon comes to cherish her like a sister. Every evening, Etty tells Danielle stories, building a beautiful world of imagination and hope for Danielle to escape into. Soon, Etty realises that the other women in their cramped hut are listening too. She encourages them to share their lives, to talk about their darling children running around clutching their favorite toys, the love affairs they once had and the beloved family they've already lost. Etty must survive this terrible place: if only to keep her promise to these brave women that their stories will not be forgotten. But the more hope Etty gives Danielle, the more chances the young girl begins to take with her life, rebelling against the brutal SS guards and forcing Etty to protect her. And one day, Danielle goes too far."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camps; Women Nazi concentration camp inmates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The zone of interest / by Amis, Martin.(CARDINAL)352536;
"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The zone of interest : a novel / by Amis, Martin,author.(CARDINAL)352536;
The Zone of Interest -- To Business -- Grey Snow -- Brown Snow -- Dead And Alive -- Walpurgis Night -- Aftermath -- Acknowledgments and Afterword: "That Which Happened""From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul."--
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camp inmates; Internment camp inmates; Young women;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15
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The trumpets of Jericho : a novel / by Dolan, J. Michael,1948-author.(CARDINAL)373345;
Includes bibliographical references."The trumpets of Jericho is the first book, and only novel, devoted in its entirety to one of the more remarkable episodes in the annals of Jewish resistance to the Nazis--the defiant 1944 uprising at the SS death camp Auschwitz--and the just as inspiring account of the four young female conspirators arrested and savagely tortured by the Gestapo during the investigation that followed. As one of architects of the rebellion, Roza Robota, arguably the greatest Jewish heroine to come out of the Holocaust yet all but unknown to this day, is brought to vivid and long overdue life. Prepare to meet her and the rest of the heroes, and villains, in this epochal saga that will both thrill and horrify you at the heights and depths our unpredictable species is capable of reaching."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Woman from Shanghai : tales of survival from a Chinese labor camp / by Yang, Xianhui.(CARDINAL)470157;
Includes bibliographical references."Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled "Rightists" by the Communist Part and banished to Jianiangou in China's northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo "reeducation" through hard labor. These exiles men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of the stench of death: of the rougly three thousand inmates, only about five hundred survived." "In 1997, Xianhui Yang traveled to Gansu and spent the next five years interviewing more than one hundred survivors of the camp. In Woman from Shanghai he presents thirteen of their stories, which have been crafted into fiction in order to evade Chinese censorship but which lose none of their fierce power. These are tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away."--Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction.; Jiabiangou (Concentration camp); Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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More than I love my life / by Grossman, David,author.(CARDINAL)757121; Cohen, Jessica(Translator),translator.(CARDINAL)353214;
"From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told. The story was inspired by the life of a friend and confidante of David Grossman who, in the late 1940s, was imprisoned and tortured on the notorious Goli Otok, a barren island prison off the coast of Croatia. Grossman's telling focuses on three strong women--Vera, 90; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at 39 years old is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned when she was just three by Nina--has been close to her grandmother throughout her life. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together back to Goli ("the Adriatic Alcatraz"), where Vera was imprisoned, enslaved, and tortured for three years as a young wife, when she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey, documented by Gili's camera, lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion. With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman's fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel will thrill his many readers and bring new ones into the fold."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Goli otok (Concentration camp); Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz : a story of survival / by Sebba, Anne,author.(CARDINAL)510607;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-377) and index.Introduction: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz -- We did not feel pain anymore -- Making good music for the SS -- Something beautiful to listen to -- You will be saved -- The orchestra means life -- She gave us hope and courage -- I felt the sun on my face -- Here you are not going to play -- I have never seen anything like this -- Someone three quarters destroyed by her experience -- Epilogue: If we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.Moving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson now examines how a disparate band of young girls struggled to overcome differences and little musical knowledge to please the often-sadistic Nazi overseers. In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a band that would play in all weathers marching music to other inmates, forced laborers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day. While still living amid the harshest of circumstances, with little more than a bowl of soup to eat, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, being in the orchestra saved their lives. But at what cost? What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care. From Alma Rosé, the orchestra's main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members, and the response of other prisoners for the first time.
Subjects: Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Internment camp inmates as musicians.; Women Nazi concentration camp inmates.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 23
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The girl who escaped from Auschwitz / by Midwood, Ellie,author.;
"Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive. Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the SS, she uses her position to save as many lives as she can, smuggling scraps of bread to those desperate with hunger. Edward, inmate 531, is a camp veteran and a political prisoner. Though he looks like everyone else, with a shaved head and striped uniform, he's a fighter in the underground Resistance. And he has an escape plan. They are locked up for no other sin than simply existing. But when they meet, the dark shadow of Auschwitz is lit by a glimmer of hope. Edward makes Mala believe in the impossible. That despite being surrounded by electric wire, machine guns topping endless watchtowers and searchlights roaming the ground, they will leave this death camp. A promise is made--they will escape together or they will die together. What follows is one of the greatest love stories in history..."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp escapes; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The savior : a novel / by Drucker, Eugene,1952-(CARDINAL)527630;
In a magnetic and graceful debut novel, world-renowned violinist Drucker writes a story about a German musician forced to play for concentration camp inmates during World War II
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Internment camp inmates; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Nazi concentration camps; Violinists; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Paper hearts / by Wiviott, Meg,author.(CARDINAL)493116;
Includes bibliographical references.Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story.Ages 12 up.600LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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