When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel could only think about how to save "her" children. She accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz only to see them taken to the gas chamber. Her...
Czechoslovakia
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Author:Jockel, HelenaSummary: -
Author:Drabek, JanSummary:In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:Based on real events and real characters! It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to unknown fates. But she, her mother and...
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Author:Mawer, SimonSummary:Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in...
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Author:Douglas, R. M.Summary:The award-winning history of twelve million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies...
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Author:Solan, GertaSummary:In June 1942, when twelve-year-old Gerta is deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto—the Nazis' deceptive "model Jewish settlement"—her family helps her cope with the surrounding devastation. Later, alone in Auschwitz,...
- Author:Hall, Wynton C., Greenfield, MartinSummary:
Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family. Here he remembers that horrific time-and how an impulsive decision to steal an SS soldier...
- Author:Jack, MarieSummary:
Après la misère et la pauvreté, la Seconde Guerre mondiale inflige à Théodora une profonde blessure : son fiancé, le résistant Gustave Novotný, meurt. Malgré son mariage avec un médecin, Jaromir Střílka, et la présence vivifiante de ses...
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Author:Auerbacher, IngeSummary:The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
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Author:Tomasov, AgnesSummary: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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Author:Pick, AlisonSummary:Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to...
- Author:Havel, VáclavSummary:
An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:It's a dangerous time for thirteen-year-old Clara and her family. They have just been imprisoned in Terezin (Terezinstadt), a ghetto in a medieval town near Prague - which was built to show the world how "well" the Nazis were treating...
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Author:Eisen, MaxSummary: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...
