Elsa Thon was a sixteen-year-old photographer's apprentice when the Nazis occupied her town of Pruszków, Poland. When her family was sent to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joined a community farm and was recruited by the Underground. Despite...
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- Author:Thon, ElsaSummary:
- Author:Bluman, Barbara RuthSummary:
This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mother’s Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mother’s dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on. Bluman sets an urgent...
- Author:Newman, DavidSummary:
David Newman’s gifts as a musician and a teacher carried him through years of brutality during the war. Torn from his family in Poland and deported for forced labour at Skarżysko- Kamienna, David battled desperation and the mounting...
- Author:Burakowski, EllaSummary:
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, each doing their part to run the family grocery store and tobacco concession. The oldest daughter, Shoshana, had many friends, her sister Esther was meticulous as she worked at...
- Author:Ravvin, NormanSummary:
A stolen house on a Polish square. A pop bottle with a less than pleasant history on Vancouver's east side. Nadia Baltzan knows a few things about theft. As a girl she took what she could - from her neighbourhood library, her piano...
- Author:Opatowski, FelixSummary:
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...
- Author:Walker, AlanSummary:
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C.,...
- Author:Dománski, MarianSummary:
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...
- Author:Enfield, EdwardSummary:
Edward Enfield chronicles his adventures bike-riding through Europe for his voracious and curious fans. Here he takes a jaunt--for the first time--through Germany. With his characteristic wit and charm, Enfield describes the glorious...
- Author:Smart, MaxwellSummary:
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...
- 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...
- Author:Reinhartz, Henia, York University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Jewish Studies, Azrieli FoundationSummary:
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...
- Author:De Blasi, MarlenaSummary:
Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity,...
- Author:Szedlecki, AnnSummary:
Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood-film-loving fourteen-year-old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and she fled to the Soviet Union with her older brother, hoping to return for the rest of her family later. Instead, she ended up spending...
- Author:Schulman, FayeSummary:
Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were soon lost in the horrors of...
- Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the Holocaust. When Alison notices a tattoo on...
- Author:Koons, JonSummary:
The villagers of Chelm, in the rabbi's absence, send a messenger to a nearby village in order to be reminded how to prepare for the coming Hanukkah. UEB and BANA Braille Grade 2 35 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each A4 volume....
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