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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Publisher
Artsmagic DVD
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film footage, taken by Soviet photographer Alexander Vorontsov, of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz. He describes the feelings that he and his comrades felt at the liberation.
Series
Making sense of history volume 19
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when the authorities finally come to the family home a split decision will have devastating consequences. Marga Minco's autobiographical novel Bitter Herbs is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and profoundly moving tale...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Susan Spatz recounts her experiences enduring three years trapped in Nazi concentration camps, from which she eventually escaped to liberation during a death march.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Country of Ash" is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young German boy's true story of tragedy and triumph, from the depths of despair in Auschwitz and Buchenwald to an extraordinary life in America."
Henry Oster was just five years old, a wide-eyed boy from the beautiful ancient city of Cologne, Germany, when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Even though Henry's father was a wounded, decorated German soldier in World War I, the Nazis' cruel obsession with Jews turned the Oster's lives into a spiral...
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume Bk. 3
Publisher
Cidivale
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages . ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While everyone knew that the war would soon be over, Nazi captain Wuerff is so fanatical that he'll continue his struggle to the bitter end. He is determined to crush the Dutch Resistance and rid The Hague of every last Jew. While his leaders amass tremendous fortunes in looted treasure, and prepare for their escape from Europe, captain Wuerff remains focused on his deadly mission. Resistance hero Kees van Rijn is resolved to undermine Wuerff's plans....
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xiv unnumbered pages, 183 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the author's eyes we see the invasion of the Netherlands, home life under the Nazis, the Buchenwald death camp, the French Underground, D-Day with the American 101st Airborne Divisions, the liberation of France, Dutch Marine training in North Carolina and an unsettled peace in Asia after VJ day.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish...