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Ackerman, Diane The Zookeeper's Wife The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw, and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen guests hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Baker, Nicholson Human Smoke : the Beginnings World War II the End of Civilization Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bannister, Nonna The Secret Holocaust Diaries : the Untold Story of Nonna Bannister A haunting eyewitness account, this is the remarkable story of a woman who had seen and survived the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust. Bannister's memoir is in part a tragedy, yet it's also an unforgettable true story about forgiveness, courage, and hope. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Berenbaum, Michael The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Coinciding with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this volume commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, using photographs of the museum's artifacts to document the human stories. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Burrin, Philippe Nazi Antisemitism : from Prejudice to the Holocaust In this English translation of editions published in France in 2000 and 2004, Burrin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) examines what turned German anti-Semitism genocidal under Nazi totalitarianism. The author of Hitler and the Jews disputes Goldhagen's assessment in Hitler's Willing Executioners that German prejudice toward Jews was historically more entrenched than that of other European nations. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Einhorn, Erin. The Pages in Between : a Holocaust Legacy of Two Families One Home In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Einhorn, Erin. The Pages in Between : a Holocaust Legacy of Two Families One Home In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Evans, Richard J. Lying About Hitler : History Holocaust and the David Irving Trial A Cambridge University professor explores the court case involving Holocaust denier David Irving and author Deborah Lipstadt, and asks important questions about objective history and the role of historians in interpreting the past. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Good, Michael The Search for Major Plagge : the Nazi Who Saved Jews American physician Good is the son of European immigrants. During a 1999 family trip to Lithuania, he visited the Heeres Kraftfahr Park (HKP) labor camp in Vilnius, where his mother retold the story of how she and her parents had survived the Holocaust due to the efforts of Karl Plagge, the German Army officer in charge of the camp. Good recounts the personal journey that followed as he sought to learn more about a man whose efforts to save Jewish lives rivaled those of Oskar Schindler. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Greene, Joshua M. and Shiva Kumar Witness: Voices from the Holocaust Personal accounts of Holocaust witnesses, including Jews, non-Jews, American POWs, and resistance fighters, create a vivid picture of life under the Nazis, in ghettos, camps, during the liberation, and after the war. 2000 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Johnson, Eric A. What We Knew : Terror Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany : an Oral History The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Kramer, Clara Clara's War : One Girl's Story of Survival Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Longerich, Peter The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution The aim of this book is to offer documentary proof of Hitler's central role in the murder of the European Jews. In order to achieve this aim, various documents and fragments of documents have been pieced together and the codified language of the dictator deciphered. [Book jacket] 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Mandelbaum, Yitta Halberstam Small Miracles of the Holocaust : Extraordinary Coincidences of Faith Hope and Survival In this magnificent work--timed with the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht ("night of the broken glass")--the authors have collected more than 50 remarkable, uplifting twists of fate, or extraordinary coincidences, that occurred during the Holocaust. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam The Lost : a Search for Six of Six Million The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust-an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Muller, Melissa Anne Frank: The Biography In the first biography of Anne Frank, Muller presents a surprising full and unsentimental portrait of her life before the war, while in hiding, and in the concentration camp, based on interviews and recently discovered documents. 1998 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Nicholas, Lynn H. Cruel World : the Children of Europe in the Nazi Web To research her study of European children affected by Nazi policies, Nicholas interviewed many of the survivors and examined the governmental and military archives of several nations. She shows the relationship between Nazi policies and tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and in the Spanish Civil War. She also recounts the stories of the Kindertransport children, the teenaged children of the Reich, and the survivors of wartime famines, camps and factories. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Oren, Ram Gertruda's Oath : a Child a Promise and a Heroic Escape During World War II Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, traveled to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, the family's devoted Catholic nanny. When Michael's mother had a stroke, Gertruda promised the dying woman that she would make her way to Palestine and raise him as her own son. Written with the assistance of Michael, now 72, this book re-creates Michael and Gertruda's amazing journey. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Pringle, Heather Anne The Master Plan : Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust Journalist Pringle tracks the work of the Ahnenerbe, an archeological institute of sorts set up by Heinrich Himmler to justify killing just about anyone in Nazi Germany who did not fit his idea of physical perfection. Manned by a bizarre mix of maniacs and serious scientists, the work of the Ahnenerbe included looking for the roots of Aryanism in Tibet and Bolivia and creating a skeleton collection by choosing among live Jews, gassing them, and stripping the flesh from their bones. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Rigg, Bryan Mark Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rigg tells how American officials and leaders of German military intelligence achieved the secret rescue of the Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, who had been in Warsaw when the Nazis invaded in 1939. The escape has been the subject of much speculation for decades. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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