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"Of the many refugee trails filled with stateless Jews fleeing Europe during the decades of the Nazi Regime, the odyssey of Cantor Joseph Cysner's escape from Hamburg to Poland to the Philippines stands unique. Joseph escaped the fate of thousands of refugees held at border-camps along the German-Polish border in 1938 and joined hundreds of European refugee Jews ultimately saved from destruction between 1937 and 1941 by little known rescue plans in...
147) Seeking refuge
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A story of a girl escaping Nazi-occupied Austria alone and trying to settle in England without her family.
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A troubling picture of the U.S. during a time beset by anti-Semitism and a government that, due to complex social and political factors, delayed action and suppressed information and blocked efforts that could have saved hundreds of thousands of people from the Holocaust. Focuses on the case of Kurt Klein, who attempted to battle the bureaucratic stonewall as he tried to get his Jewish family out of Germany.
150) Powroty
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Polish
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"Powieść inspirowana życiem autorki, prywatnie babki pisarza Edmunda de Waala (Zając o bursztynowych oczach) opisuje powrót wygnańców do powojennego Wiednia. Starszy Żyd, młoda arystokratka i biznesmen - uchodźcy, dobrowolni i nie całkiem, wracają w latach pięćdziesiątych z Ameryki do stolicy Austrii, która wciąż jeszcze nie może otrząsnąć się z wojennych wspomnień. Żmudne zabiegi o odzyskanie mienia przez powracających Żydów,...
152) Pid bagrianim nebom
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Ukrainian
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"Druha svitova viyna. Pino Lella, zvychaynyy italiys'kyy pidlitok, navit' ne uyavlyaye, shcho yoho zhyttya ot-ot dokorinno zminyt'sya. Pislya bombuvannya zalyshyvshys' bezdomnym, Pino vstupaye v pidpillya, yake ryatuye yevreyiv, dopomahayuchy yim vyyikhaty v Al'py. A z·hodom, zapysavshys' u lavy nimets'koyi armiyi, Pino staye osobystym vodiyem henerala Hansa Layersa -- odnoho z nayzahadkovishykh i nayvplyvovishykh komandyriv Tret'oho reykhu. Tak...
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"In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa,...
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This moving account of the children that lived through the worst of World War II explores their harrowing world of concentration camps, ghettos, and deportee and exile routes from an intimate viewpoint. Documenting the history of these children and the adults that protected them, this compilation includes incredible stories such as those of Clara Watch, Oskar Schindler, Ruth Danner, and the children of the Kindertransport.
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"In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending on who was hunting him at the time. Nine years old and his world had collapsed. It was 1939 and Hitler had unleashed the Blitzkrieg--bombs were exploding around him, changing everything. This moment of terror catapulted him into an epic nine-year adventure during the Second World War. He was forced to abandon...