Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family. It is a skill that will serve him well as he tries to stay alive in Nazi...
Holocaust survivors
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Auteur:Michaels, AnneSommaire:In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist. This story follows the boy across two continents as we witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the...
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Auteur:Tomasov, AgnesSommaire:Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Slovakia’s Low Tatra Mountains in the fall of 1944, in constant danger from the Germans occupying nearby villages, fourteen-year-old Agnes Grossmann and her family made the daring decision to...
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Auteur:Dománski, MarianSommaire:On the run in Nazi-occupied Poland, thirteen-year-old orphan Marian Finkelman—later Domanski—was forced to grow up much too early. When he finally escaped the ghetto in his hometown, Marian’s perfect Polish and fair complexion helped...
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Auteur:Gárdos, Péter, Szász, ElizabethSommaire:Twenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with...
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Auteur:Uris, LeonSommaire:A passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel. Exodus is an international publishing...
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Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a train to the Treblinka death camp and hidden from the Nazis until the end of the war. When Diana was 13 she moved to New...
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Diamant pens the tale of four women who flee Nazi Europe. Landing in a postwar British camp in Palestine, the women make extraordinary discoveries about themselves, humanity, and each other.
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Auteur:Wiesel, ElieSommaire:Eliezer is a successful journalist and death camp survivor who steps into the pat of an oncoming taxi. Critically injured, he searches the tragic events of his life for answers. How could the Holocaust happen? What kind of God would...
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Auteur:Wiesel, ElieSommaire:With the coming of dawn is the coming of death for a captured English officer in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter, is his executioner. Ordered to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution...
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Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
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Auteur:Smart, MaxwellSommaire:In the town of Buczacz, Poland, nine-year-old Maxwell’s life is turned upside-down when the Soviets invade in 1939. His family eventually adapts, but nothing can prepare them for the Nazi invasion two years later. Soon Maxwell is alone...
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Auteur:Eisen, MaxSommaire:This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a...
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A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless--and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again.
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Auteur:Reinhartz, Henia, York University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Jewish Studies, Azrieli FoundationSommaire:Lodz, Poland, 1944. Teenaged Henia Rosenfarb sat with her family in a small, secret room, hiding from Nazi soldiers who were looking for them. Little could the fiery redhead have imagined that her path would take her from wartime Poland...
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Auteur:Goldberg, MyrnaSommaire:In this first Azrieli Foundation anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the extreme risks of “passing” as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to...
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Auteur:Raab, Elisabeth M.Sommaire:“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang...
- Auteur:Bucci, Tatiana, Bucci, AndraSommaire:
In 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. An unforgettable narrative of the power of sisterhood in the most extreme circumstances, and of how a mother's love can overcome the...
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Auteur:Vertes, LeslieSommaire:In 1944, twenty-year-old Leslie Vertes escapes from a forced labour detail in Budapest and miraculously survives by assuming a false identity. About to taste freedom as the end of the war nears, his liberation is shortlived when he is...
- Auteur:Matas, CarolSommaire:
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
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