As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to...
Holocaust survivors
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Auteur:Lynch, John, Abramson, ZeldaSommaire: - Auteur:Albom, MitchSommaire:
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince...
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Auteur:Rajchman, ChilSommaire:Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.
- Auteur:Neuhaus, NeleSommaire:
The body of a ninety-two-year-old Holocaust survivor is found shot to death in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the scene. The autopsy reveals an old tattoo on his arm--a blood type marker used by...
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Auteur:Baum, ClaireSommaire:Almost forty years after the end of the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal...
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Auteur:Brenner-Wonschick, HanneloreSommaire:From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these...
- Auteur:MacInnes, HelenSommaire:
When American historian John Craig's old college professor turns up dead, Craig's search for the truth takes him from Paris to the island of Mykonos, where he must unmask a dangerous and powerful foe.
- Auteur:Friedman, TovaSommaire:
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labor...
- Auteur:Smart, MaxwellSommaire:
The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly...
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Auteur:Abrams, Judy, Felsenberg Marx, EvaSommaire:Two Jewish girls born six months apart – Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia – are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly...
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Auteur:Sermer, ZuzanaSommaire:An only child, fifteen-year-old Zuzana Sermer did what she could to protect her father and ailing mother when the Nazis set up a fascist regime in her native Slovakia in 1939. Four years later, after fleeing to the supposed safety of...
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Auteur:Meisels, LeslieSommaire:When 17-year-old Leslie Meisels insisted that his mother and two brothers join a transport leaving Debrecen, Hungary, to go who knows where, that decision luckily put them among the roughly 20,000 “exchange Jews” whose lives had been...
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Auteur:Grossman, Ibolya Szalai, Réti, AndySommaire:In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused – a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will...
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Auteur:Freund, John, Gilbert, Martin, York University (Toronto, Ont.)Sommaire:A young boy who loved soccer as much as he loved to write, John Freund found his joyful childhood shattered by the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. John’s family suffered through the systematic erosion of their rights only to be...
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Auteur:Adler, AmekSommaire:"How much longer could we last?" sixteen-year-old Amek Adler laments, after arriving at yet one more concentration camp in the spring of 1945. From the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos to the Radom forced labour camp, and from the Natzweiler...
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Auteur:Cobden, MichaelSommaire:His was a life worth living, a story worth telling. So Jim Spatz describes the story of his father, Simon Spatz, in the introduction to this fascinating biography of the high-profile Jewish Nova Scotian businessman (1913–2007). In Simon...
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Auteur:Rosenberg Stenge, MargritSommaire:In 1940 in the remote village of Rogne, Norway, eleven-year-old Margrit Rosenberg and her parents believe that they have finally found the safety that has eluded them since fleeing from Germany two years earlier. What could go wrong in...
- Auteur:Kalman Naves, Elaine, Ringuet, ChantalSommaire:
Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Shoshanna, une jeune Juive hongroise, est très amoureuse de son mari, qui disparaît en Russie. Esseulée, elle accepte qu’un homme plus vieux qu’elle la prenne sous son aile. Il lui donnera un enfant, Elaine....
- Auteur:Gillham, David R.Sommaire:
A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee, bagels at Katz's Deli, and ultramodern TVs. But in a certain walk...
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Auteur:Rosenberg, Truda, Klein-Lataud, ChristineSommaire:Sans masque fait la chronique des expériences exceptionnelles de Truda Rosenberg, une jeune Juive qui a vécu pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. La seule survivante de sa famille, Rosenberg témoigne l'adversité et la cruauté...
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