Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545231191
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Book Synopsis Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by : Elly Berkovits Gross

Download or read book Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust written by Elly Berkovits Gross and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the left. She never saw her family alive again. Thanks to a series of miracles, Elly survived the Holocaust. Today she is dedicated to keeping alive the stories of those who did not. Elly appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes for her involvement in bringing an important lawsuit against Volkswagen, whose German factory used her and other Jews as slave laborers.

The Hidden Girl

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Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781606866108
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hidden Girl by : Lola Rein Kaufman

Download or read book The Hidden Girl written by Lola Rein Kaufman and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it's finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.

Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338753363
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust by : Renee Hartman

Download or read book Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust written by Renee Hartman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.

Berlin Wild

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151075699X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Berlin Wild by : Elly Welt

Download or read book Berlin Wild written by Elly Welt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best I've ever read." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary power . . . Comic . . .Tragic . . . A spellbinder." —The Washington Post "Earns four stars . . . A wonderful book . . . Read it, by all means, and give it to a friend." —San Francisco Chronicle "This novel hooks the reader on the first page and does not let go." —USA Today "Pain and laughter . . . The author had the genius to allow comedy to dominate this powerful story of struggle." —The Washington Book Review Dr. Josef Bernhardt, an anesthesiologist on the faculty of medicine at the University of Iowa, has tried his whole life to shut out the events of his youth in Berlin during the 1940s, but one incident in his operating room pulls him right back… It’s 1943, and sixteen-year-old Josef has been invited to leave his family and take up residence at the Wilhelm Institute of Berlin. Half-Jewish, he is unable to attend his high school due to Nazi laws, but as a mathematical genius, he has gained access to an opportunity that will assumedly spare and support him and eight other “special cases.” Though Josef is unable to forget about the war and the unknown fate of his family for the two years the Institute offers him sanity and safety, he and the others manage to discover friendship, love, and generosity within and between each other. They work side by side, under the direction of Professor Avilov (The Chief), on genetic experiments and nuclear research—quietly attempting to sabotage the war that is funding their work. Each day for two years, Josef fears that the dreamlike opportunity he has been dropped into might shatter, and that the nightmare of the genocide and war outside will infiltrate his safe haven. Berlin Wild is based on an astonishingly true story of survival.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

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Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0553538845
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by : Irene Gut Opdyke

Download or read book In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defierof the SS and the Nazis, all at once. When the war began, Irene Gut was just seventeen: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officiers' dining hall, she learns how to fight back. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence. Irene eavesdropped on the German's plans. She smuggled people out of the work camp. And she hid twelve Jews in the basement of a Nazi major's home. To deliver her friends from evil, this young woman did whatever it took--even the impossible.

Night

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Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780374534752
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Night by : Elie Wiesel

Download or read book Night written by Elie Wiesel and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's seminal work.

Escaping Hitler

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510708774
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Escaping Hitler by : Phyllida Scrivens

Download or read book Escaping Hitler written by Phyllida Scrivens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust—and lived happily ever after. Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939, Günter boarded a bus to the border of Luxembourg, illegally crossed the river, and walked alone for seven days through Belgium and into Holland. He was intent on catching a ferry to England and freedom, but the outcome of his journey was not exactly as he had planned. Scrivens gathered her information through interviews with Günter, now known as Joe Stirling, and with those closest to him. During an emotional ‘foot-stepping’ journey in September 2013, Scrivens also visited Günter’s birthplace, met with a school friend, discovered the apartment in Koblenz where he fled following Kristallnacht in 1938, drove the route of Günter’s walk through Europe, and retraced the final steps of his parents prior to their deportation to a Nazi death camp in Poland during 1942. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Stella

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385471793
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Stella by : Peter Wyden

Download or read book Stella written by Peter Wyden and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, and who later became notorious as a "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in Israel. 16 pages of B&W photographs.

I Escaped from Auschwitz

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631584723
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis I Escaped from Auschwitz by : Rudolf Vrba

Download or read book I Escaped from Auschwitz written by Rudolf Vrba and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944—This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over one hundred miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz. Vrba and Wetzler manage to evade Nazi authorities looking for them and make contact with the Jewish council in Zilina, Slovakia, informing them about the truth of the “unknown destination” of Jewish deportees all across Europe. This first-hand report alerted Western authorities, such as Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to the reality of Nazi annihilation camps—information that until then had only been recognized as nasty rumors. I Escaped from Auschwitz is a close-up look at the horror faced by the Jewish people in Auschwitz and across Europe during World War II. This newly edited translation of Vrba’s memoir will leave readers reeling at the terrors faced by those during the Holocaust. Despite the profound emotions brought about by this narrative, readers will also find an astounding story of heroism and courage in the face of seemingly hopeless circumstances.

Bittersweet Legacy

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Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761819769
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Bittersweet Legacy by : Cynthia Moskowitz Brody

Download or read book Bittersweet Legacy written by Cynthia Moskowitz Brody and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet Legacy is a collection of poetry, short stories and art inspired by the Holocaust. It is a book born of paradox, evoking remembrances of the darkest moments known to humankind by utilizing the power and beauty of the creative force. The writers and artists represented in this book are individuals who were driven to respond to the extremities that define the Holocaust. Some are accomplished in their fields, others have created in an attempt to understand and give form to their sorrow and quest for meaning. Each voice expresses a singular reprise. Together they forge a resounding voice in response to the six million voices that were silenced.

The Girl who Survived

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Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780545175746
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl who Survived by : Bronia Brandman

Download or read book The Girl who Survived written by Bronia Brandman and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with courage and the help of strangers Bronia became one of the youngest survivors.

Elli

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Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008411626
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Elli by : Livia Bitton Jackson

Download or read book Elli written by Livia Bitton Jackson and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life - and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution. When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty year old. This account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity - and dogged survival - is Elli's true story.

The Endless Steppe

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006440577X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Book Synopsis The Endless Steppe by : Esther Hautzig

Download or read book The Endless Steppe written by Esther Hautzig and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-05-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled to Siberia In June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.

The Progress of Love

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814564
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The Progress of Love by : Alice Munro

Download or read book The Progress of Love written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Throughout this remarkable collection moments of insight flash from the pages like lightning, not necessarily providing answers—more like showing the way to new questions.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents’ confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes to the shaken mother the fragility between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his hapless younger brother. A man brings his lover on a visit to his ex-wife, only to feel unexpectedly closer to his estranged partner. In these and other stories, Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.

The Last Kings of Shanghai

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Kings of Shanghai by : Jonathan Kaufman

Download or read book The Last Kings of Shanghai written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.

Last Jew of Rotterdam

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Publisher : Purple Pomegranate Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780802428660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Jew of Rotterdam by : Ernest Cassutto

Download or read book Last Jew of Rotterdam written by Ernest Cassutto and published by Purple Pomegranate Productions. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads like a novel, but the riveting story it tells is true. Journey with Ernest and Elisabeth from the horror of the Holocaust to salvation in Jesus the Messiah. Not only is this a powerful testimony of how God sustained several Jewish families during the worst nightmare of our time, it is also a tender love story. You won't be able to put it down!

The Auschwitz Detective

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ISBN 13 : 9789657795057
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Auschwitz Detective by : Jonathan Dunsky

Download or read book The Auschwitz Detective written by Jonathan Dunsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi. Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason to carry on living. But when a boy is found murdered inside the camp, Adam is given the chance to be a detective again. Ordered to discover the identity of the killer, Adam must employ all his wits to solve the mystery while surviving the perils of Auschwitz. And he'd better catch the killer soon because the punishment for failure is death.