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Button man / by Gross, Andrew,1952-author.;
"A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Brothers; Jewish families; Organized crime; Clothing trade;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Roman year : a memoir / by Aciman, André,author.;
"A memoir of the author's time in Rome after his family was made to leave Egypt, before moving to America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aciman, André.; Aciman family.; Jewish refugees; Jews, Egyptian; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Queen Esther : a novel / by Irving, John,1942-author.;
"From one of the world's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers comes a big-hearted and intricately crafted novel about purpose, belonging, and the lengths we will go to find ourselves. Thomas and Constance Winslow of Pennacook, New Hampshire are the quiet iconoclasts of their tidy New England town, their subtle rebellions against stodgy, churchgoing conformity the perennial subject of the townspeople's inconsequential murmuring. That is, until their adoption of a precocious fourteen-year-old Jewish girl from the quietly infamous orphanage in St. Cloud's to serve as an au pair to their youngest daughter, Honor, gives the townspeople of Pennacook something to talk about. ... Two decades later, amid the outbreak of the Second World War, the fiercely self-reliant Jewish au pair, Esther Natch, is in Europe fighting Nazis, but still devoted to Honor, and to a special arrangement between the two of them: Esther will be the surrogate biological mother of a child that Honor and the Winslow family will raise as their own. True to her word and better, in 1941 Esther gives birth to James "Jimmy" Winslow, who quickly becomes the apple of the Winslow family's eye. In 1963, Jimmy is twenty-two and determined to be a fiction writer. His studies take him to Vienna, where he spends an eventful year, during which his mother Honor is determined to secure him a draft deferment by any means--whether by physical injury or by "knocking someone up." In Vienna and the years that follow, the mysterious activities of Jimmy's Jewish birthmother Esther and her covert, globetrotting activities remain a poignant throughline in Jimmy's life, leading to a revelatory journey to conflict-torn Jerusalem in 1981. A triumphant return to the literary universe of John Irving's beloved, landmark novel The Cider House Rules, Queen Esther is a touching, timely, and propulsive masterwork from one of the most accomplished novelists of the last century."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Adoption; Adoptees; Authors; Family secrets; Families; Jewish women; Mothers and sons; Surrogate mothers;
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The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / by De Waal, Edmund,author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Ephrussi family.; De Waal, Edmund; Jewish bankers; Jewish businesspeople; Art; Netsukes;
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The little liar : a novel / by Albom, Mitch,1958-author.;
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading "north," where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Brothers; Families; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Survival; Truthfulness and falsehood; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The little liar [text (large print)] : a novel / by Albom, Mitch,1958-author.;
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading "north," where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Brothers; Families; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Survival; Truthfulness and falsehood; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Those who forget : my family's story in Nazi Europe--a memoir, a history, a warning. / by Schwarz, Géraldine,author.; Marris, Laura,1987-translator.; translation of:Schwarz, Geraldine.Amnésiques.English.;
"Those 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"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Schwarz, Géraldine; Schwartz family.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Journalists; Memory; Memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains / by Neumann, Ariana,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo's eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later, Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. When Time Stopped is a powerful detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life. In uncovering her father's story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Neumann, Hanus Stanislav, 1921-2001; Neumann, Hanus Stanislav, 1921-2001.; Newman family.; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When we flew away : a novel of Anne Frank before the diary / by Hoffman, Alice.; Frank, Anne,1929-1945.Achterhuis.;
Includes bibliographical references.In May 1940, Anne Frank is a young girl not quite eleven with all the ordinary problems of a little sister, but Amsterdam is about to be invaded by Nazis and after that everything changes.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Frank, Anne, 1929-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish children in the Holocaust; Jews; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kiss the red stairs : the Holocaust, once removed / by Lederman, Marsha(Western arts correspondent),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Marsha Lederman always knew her parents were different, and at five, she learned why: in the kitchen, her mother sat her down and explained about the Holocaust. Decades later, her parents dead and a mother to her own young son, Marsha is reeling in the wake of her divorce. She wants her parents' help, but in their absence, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma that shaped them, and she begins her own journey into the past, to tell her parents' stories of loss and survival. Kiss The Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival, inherited trauma, divorce and discovery that will reassure readers as they navigate their own monumental change."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lederman, Marsha (Western arts correspondent); Lederman, Marsha (Western arts correspondent); Children of Holocaust survivors; Children of Holocaust survivors; Divorce; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Psychic trauma.;
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