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2341) The book of Anna
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"The book of Anna is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying book of prose diary entries and autobiographical poems offers intimate glimpses of Anna's present--her writing process, relationships with neighbors, obsessive sexual behavior, chain-smoking, and idiosyncratic exploration of Jewish...
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"Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was desperate to salvage its reputation ... The organization emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. But it did so while defending former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel...
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"Though many teens and children did not fully understand what was happening in the early days of Adolf Hitler's reign, they certainly felt the effects of anti-Semitism. Students in Nazified schools were forced to perform the Hitler salute every day, and Jewish students were increasingly persecuted by teachers and peers alike. Friends turned against friends, and there was enormous pressure on young Gentiles to adhere to Hitler's racist policies, as...
2346) Life in the Nazi ghettos
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"Nazi control of Germany was marked by the insidious escalation of anti-Semitic policies, as Jews were first forced to self-identify, then violently pushed to relocate from their apartments to the poorest areas of town, where their movements and livelihoods were tightly controlled by German soldiers. The ghettos were isolated from the rest of the city and subject to ever-increasingly restrictions the resulted in overcrowding, disease, and starvation....
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"'Nazi medicine' studies the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. 'The cross and the star' finds disturbing echoes of anti-Semitism in the ... Gospel...
2352) My daughter's keeper
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Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you? Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful and short-lived. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic...
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"This book deals with two very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history--the Holocaust and the Nakba. Both events, which differ in nature and in degree, have had a decisive impact on the subsequent history, consciousness and identities of the two peoples. The Holocaust has become a central component of Jewish identity, particularly since the late 1970s and the 1980s, in Israel and around the world. The Nakba and its persisting...
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La verdadera historia de la lista de Kersten, un relato desconocido de terror, fanatismo, generosidad y heroísmo. Hasta las figuras más temibles de la historia tienen sus debilidades, y la de Heinrich Himmler fue sin duda su medico, cuyas manos milagrosas eran las únicas capaces de aliviar sus insoportables calambres abdominales. Felix Kersten, nacido en Estonia y formado por un maestro tibetano en Finlandia, era uno de los fisioterapeutas más...
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"Edith Eger, conocida como la bailarina de Auschwitz, nos describe cuáles son las 12 prisiones mentales en las que nos recluimos tras un episodio traumático, como el victimismo, la evasión, el abandono, la culpa o la vergüenza. A lo largo de 12 breves capítulos, nos revela la sabiduría y los consejos prácticos fruto de su larga experiencia atendiendo pacientes en su consulta. A partir del sufrimiento ajeno y con el ejemplo siempre presente...
2356) Los niños de la estrella amarilla: la esperanza encontrada en le chambon-sur-lignon : una novela
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"Jacob y Moises Stein viven con su tIa Judit en París, hasta que en agosto de 1942 se desata la gran redada contra los judIos extranjeros. Sus padres, conocidos dramaturgos alemanes, están ocultos en la Francia libra, pero, antes des que su tía logre enviarles al sur, los gendarmes los detienen y los llevan al Velódromo de Invierno, donde más de cuatro mil niños, cinco mil mujeres y tres mil hombres tuvieron que subsistir sin comida ni agua...
2358) Yossel: April 19, 1943
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The sketches of Yossel, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II, capture the suffering of his family, the hardships and cruelties of the ghetto, the increasingly harsh treatment of the Nazis, and the events of the 1943 uprising.
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"For over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as "Hitler's Pope", accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have even said that the pope was complicit in Hitler's grab for power, privately fueled by a hatred for the Jewish people. And if they are right, who would not join in condemning a leader like this, especially one who claims to represent all Christians? But...