In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks...
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Author:Jenoff, PamSummary: -
Author:Smith, Timothy JaySummary:It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the...
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Author:Sem-Sandberg, Steve, Death, SarahSummary:Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year...
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Author:Romero, R. M.Summary:In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times....
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the...
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Nine-year-old Bruno is bored and lonely since his family moved from Berlin. It is 1942 and his father, a Nazi officer, has a new posting in a place called 'Out-With'. It isn't long before Bruno finds a new friend, a boy...
- Author:Tokarczuk, OlgaSummary:
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what...
- Author:Kovala, LisaSummary:
As the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish merchant...
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Author:Levi, PrimoSummary: - Author:Lem, StanislawSummary:
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the scientific research station hovering high above the surface of Solaris, he finds the place deserted except for two scientists, who have been driven mad by some unknown horror. The researchers...
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Author:Adler, AmekSummary:"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...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
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Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
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Author:Krakauer, RenateSummary:Only by Blood is a novel of search for roots, mother-daughter love and family reconciliation. A Polish woman receives puzzling news from her mother just before she dies. She wants to fulfill her mother's last wishes, but has...
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Author:Tannenzapf, William, Krakauer, RenateSummary:William Tannenzapf never wavered in his determination to survive and save his wife and baby girl from the evil that gripped his home town of Stanislawów. Blond, cherubic, Renate Krakauer was a “miracle baby” born as the world descended...
- 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...
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning, from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. But her work, which led to the atomic age in science, was also her salvation.
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Author:Rich, BettySummary:When the Nazis invaded her small town of Zduńska Wola, Poland, in 1939, sixteen-year-old Basia Kohn (later Betty Rich) escaped into Soviet-occupied Poland. Over the next five years, her journey took her thousands of kilometres from a...
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Author:Beker, Bronia, Beker, JosephSummary:Bronia and Josio (Joseph) grew up in Kozowa, a shtetl filled with lively culture, eccentric characters and extended family. When Bronia met Josio, she was charmed by his confidence and fearlessness. Separated when Josio was drafted into...
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Author:Kutz, MichaelSummary:Nearly buried alive, ten-year-old Michael Kutz narrowly escaped the Nazi death squad that killed 4,000 Jews, including his own family, in his hometown of Nieśwież. Guided by his mother’s last words and determined to survive, he became...
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