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Monday, 7 November 2016

Rena's Promise By Rena Kornreich Gelissen

Title	:	Rena's Promise
Author	:	Rena Kornreich Gelissen
ISBN	:	0807070718
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

A new, expanded edition of Rena s Promise went on sale March 17, 2015 Find it listed in the other editions of this title, or search by ISBN 978 080709313 9.Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years While there she was reunited with her sister Danka Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise A new, expanded edition of Rena s Promise went on sale March 17, 2015 Find it listed in the other editions of this...

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Friday, 14 October 2016

The Last Selection By Goldie Szachter Kalib

Title	:	The Last Selection
Author	:	Goldie Szachter Kalib
ISBN	:	0870237586
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	266

This haunting memoir records the experiences of a young Jewish girl forced to confront the horrors of the Holocaust Born on 1931 into a well to do family, Goldie Szachter Kalib begins her account with a rare portrait of Jewish life in a small Polish town in the 1930s Although her memories reflect the perceptions of a child, her descriptions offer a wealth of information This haunting memoir records the experiences of a young Jewish girl forced to confront the horrors of the Holocaust Born on 1931 into a w...

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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Sonderkommando Auschwitz By Shlomo Venezia

Title	:	Sonderkommando Auschwitz
Author	:	Shlomo Venezia
ISBN	:	8817028630
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	240

Per decenni Shlomo Venezia, ebreo di Salonicco di nazionalit italiana, ha preferito mantenere il silenzio Ha tenuto dentro di s i mostri e i fantasmi, il marchio indelebile della Storia Ha messo a tacere le voci raggelanti e i colpi della brutalit umana, come l inconsolabile pianto di un neonato, sommerso da corpi asfissiati, tra cui quello della sua stessa madre, pla Per decenni Shlomo Venezia, ebreo di Salonicco di nazionalit italiana, ha preferito mantenere il silenzio Ha tenuto dentro di s i mostri e ...

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Friday, 9 September 2016

Into That Darkness By Gitta Sereny

Title	:	Into That Darkness
Author	:	Gitta Sereny
ISBN	:	0394710355
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	400

Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka the largest of the extermination camps , this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler s final soulution....

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Thursday, 25 August 2016

Desert Boys By Peter Rees

Title	:	Desert Boys
Author	:	Peter Rees
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	736

Australians fought in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in both World Wars This is the very human story of those soldiers, sailors and airmen and their involvement in some of the toughest campaigns of modern times, and their life away from the battlefield As gritty as it is real An amazing book about ordinary Australians made extraordinary by the times the Australians fought in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in both World Wars This is the very human story of those soldiers, ...

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The House on Garibaldi Street By Isser Harel

Title	:	The House on Garibaldi Street
Author	:	Isser Harel
ISBN	:	0714643157
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	290

This is the true story of the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel s secret intelligence serviceunder the leadership of Isser Harel This is his account, revised and updated, with the real names and details of all Mossad personnel....

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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Born Survivors By Wendy Holden

Title	:	Born Survivors
Author	:	Wendy Holden
ISBN	:	0062370251
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	385

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944 Three women believe they are preg The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unb...

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Saturday, 20 February 2016

Cherries of Freedom By Alfred Andersch

Title	:	Cherries of Freedom
Author	:	Alfred Andersch
ISBN	:	1592640524
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	88

A German soldier deserts in Italy during the Second World War, and for the first time, experiences real freedom A classic of post war Germany....

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Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Legacy of Rescue By Marta Fuchs

Title	:	Legacy of Rescue
Author	:	Marta Fuchs
ISBN	:
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Number of Pages	:	208

Marta Fuchs Legacy of Rescue A Daughter s Tribute tells the story of her father Morton Miksa Fuchs and Zolt n Kubinyi, the man who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men during the Holocaust as the Commanding Officer of their forced labor battalion.Zolt n Kubinyi was taken as a POW by the Russian Army, died a year later from typhus in a Siberian labor camp, Marta Fuchs Legacy of Rescue A Daughter s Tribute tells the story of her father Morton Miksa Fuchs and Zolt n Kubin...

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Sunday, 8 November 2015

We All Wore Stars By Theo Coster

Title	:	We All Wore Stars
Author	:	Theo Coster
ISBN	:	023011444X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	224

In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population Among Theo s fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had seg...

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Sunday, 4 October 2015

The Last Of The Just By André Schwarz-Bart

Title	:	The Last Of The Just
Author	:	André Schwarz-Bart
ISBN	:	0689703651
Format	:	Paperback
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After questioning the legend of the Just Man as a child, a Jew learns about i meaning and commits himself to his faith during the Second World War....

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The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting By Mark Roseman

Title	:	The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting
Author	:	Mark Roseman
ISBN	:	0141003952
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	160

At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in eastern Europe Pooling the expertise of those present, Heydrich created the p At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human histo...

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Saturday, 23 May 2015

Since You Went Away By Margaret Buell Wilder

Title	:	Since You Went Away
Author	:	Margaret Buell Wilder
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
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A collection of letters from a housewife in Ohio to her husband serving overseas during World War II Basis for the film Since You Went Away....

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Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Last Man Standing By Dick Camp

Title	:	Last Man Standing
Author	:	Dick Camp
ISBN	:	0760341273
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

In its time, Operation Stalemate, the code name for Peleliu, was not well known It had been overshadowed by the summer 1944 Allied breakout from Normandy and the subsequent race across France and liberation ofParis Since then, the Peleliu campaign has become much better known Peleliu is featured in both Ken Burns monumental documentary The War and the HBO miniseries The In its time, Operation Stalemate, the code name for Peleliu, was not well known It had been overshadowed by the summer 1944...

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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Utah Beach By Joseph Balkoski

Title	:	Utah Beach
Author	:	Joseph Balkoski
ISBN	:	0811701441
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	329

the amphibious landing and airborne operations on d day...

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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

L'isola in via degli Uccelli By Uri Orlev

Title	:	L'isola in via degli Uccelli
Author	:	Uri Orlev
ISBN	:	8862560591
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	185

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life threatening conditions....

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Saturday, 10 May 2014

Dream When You're Feeling Blue By Elizabeth Berg

Title	:	Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Author	:	Elizabeth Berg
ISBN	:	1400065100
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	256

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love.As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children part New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story...

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