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Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
by Irmgard Hunt
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by Steve Sheinkin
Published Aug 2023
Read ReviewsFrom three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust - one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.
by Géraldine Schwarz
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsThose Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism.
by Francoise Frenkel
Published Aug 2020
Read Reviews"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.
by Maria Hummel
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, as each family member's fateful choice lead the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel's heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
by Helga Weiss
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaustappearing in English for the first time.
by Hans Fallada
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis never-before-translated masterpieceby a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front...
by Nicholas Stargardt
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsDrawing on an untouched wealth of original material school assignments; juvenile diaries; letters from evacuation camps, reformatories and asylums; letters to fathers at the front lines; even accounts of children's games Nicholas Stargardt breaks stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to give us the gripping individual stories of ...
by Anonymous
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsThe diary of a young woman, recording her and her neighbors' experiences as, for six weeks in 1945, Berlin fell to the Russian army.
by Peter Duffy
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsThe inspiring and harrowing true story of three brothers who established a hidden base camp in the Belorussian forest eluding the Nazi's extensive efforts to capture them. In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, more than one thousand Jewish men, women and children, emerged from the woods triumphant and alive.
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Published Apr 2001
Read Reviews"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence." An amazing, courageous, uplifting autobiography about a brave teenager who was not afraid to get involved.
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