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A boy in winter / by Seiffert, Rachel,author.;
"From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize-short-listed The dark room, a startling portrait of the Nazis' arrival in Ukraine as they move to implement the final solution. Otto Pohl, an engineer overseeing construction of a German road in Ukraine, awakens to the unexpected sight of SS men herding hundreds of Jews into an old brick factory. Inside the factory, Ephraim anxiously scans the growing crowd, looking for his two sons. As anxious questions swirl around him -- 'Where are they taking us? How long will we be gone?' -- he can't quell the suspicion that it would be just like his oldest son to hole up somewhere instead of lining up for the Germans, and just like his youngest to follow. Yasia, a farmer's daughter who has come into town to sell produce, sees two young boys slinking through the shadows of the deserted streets and decides to offer them shelter. As these lives become more and more intertwined -- Rachel Seiffert's prose rich with a rare compassion, courage, and emotional depth, an unflinching story is told: of survival, of conflicting senses of duty, of the oppressive power of fear and the possibility of courage in the face of terror"--
Subjects: War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
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Milk fed : a novel / by Broder, Melissa,author.;
Transitioning from her Jewish faith to dieting to maintain an illusion of existential control, Rachel bonds with an Orthodox woman at a frozen yogurt shop before embarking on a journey of food, desire and spiritual fulfillment.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Body image; Desire; Food habits; Jewish women; Self-realization in women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To hope and back : the journey of the St. Louis / by Kacer, Kathy,1954-;
The true story of the journey of the ocean liner St. Louis, which left Germany in 1939 full of Jewish passengers bound for Cuba, only to be turned back when it was not allowed to dock, as seen through the eyes of two young children.LSC
Subjects: Aveson, Lisa; Messinger, Sol Juvenile literature.; St. Louis (Ship); Jewish refugees; Jews; Jewish children in the Holocaust;
© c2011., Second Story Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lampshade : a Holocaust detective story from Buchenwald to New Orleans / by Jacobson, Mark.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-334), Internet addresses (p. 334-337) and index.LSC
Subjects: Jacobson, Mark.; World War, 1939-1945; Lampshades.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Skin;
© c2010., Simon & Schuster,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A reason to see you again : a novel / by Attenberg, Jami,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Grief; Jewish families; Mothers and daughters; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Joyful song : a naming story / by Newman, Lesléa.; Gal, Susan.;
"Today Zachary's baby sister will have her naming ceremony in the temple. With his moms, the congregation, and all their friends. He's so excited he can barely contain it. On the walk from their home, they meet neighbor after neighbor who want to know the baby's name. But, not yet, his mothers tell him. The tradition is to have a great reveal at the ceremony. So they invite each neighbor to come along"--OCLC.
Subjects: Picture books.; Jewish fiction.; Names, Personal; Jewish families; Naming ceremonies; Children of gay parents; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ridley Road [videorecording] / by Evans, Betsan Morris,television producer.; Kinnear, Rory,1978-actor.; Marsan, Eddie,actor.; Mulcahy, Lisa(Director),television director.; O'Casey, Agnes,actor.; Simpson, Susanne,television producer.; Solemani, Sarah,author.; Endeavor Content (Firm),production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.; Red Production Company,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Agnes O' Casey, Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan.Originally broadcast in 2022.It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fascism; Jewish women; Jews; Man-woman relationships; Neo-Nazism;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable / by Boyne, John,1971-;
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Subjects: Concentration camps; Friendship; Nazis; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Auschwitz (Concentration camp);
© 2008, c2006., David Fickling Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The Nazi hunters / by Nagorski, Andrew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Fugitives from justice; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Nazi hunters; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Holocaust codes : the untold story of decrypting the final solution / by Jennings, Christian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'The Holocaust Codes' is the first dedicated study of the cat-and-mouse struggle between a British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, and an Austrian SS officer responsible for the mass killings of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews. The account of how Nigel de Grey cracked the Enigma-coded signals of SS Major Hermann Höfle is one of the greatest untold stories of the WWII.
Subjects: De Grey, Nigel, 1886-1951.; Höfle, Hermann, 1898-; Cryptographers.; Enigma cipher system.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
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