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- The Vienna writers circle / by Maetis, J. C.,author.;
- "Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud's Circle--a unique group of the famed psychiatrist's friends and acquaintances who once gathered regularly at the bright and airy café to talk about books and ideas over coffee and pastries. But dark days are looming. With Hitler's annexation of Austria, Nazi edicts governing daily life become stricter and more punitive. Now Hitler has demanded that the "hidden Jews" of Vienna be tracked down, and Freud's Circle has been targeted. The SS aims to use old group photos to identify Jewish intellectuals and subversives. With the vise tightening around them, Mathias and Johannes's only option appears to be hiding in plain sight, using assumed names and identities to evade detection, aware that discovery would mean consignment to a camp or execution. Faced with stark and desperate choices, Mathias, Johannes, their families and friends all find their loyalties and courage tested in unimaginable ways. But despite betrayal, heartache and imprisonment, hope remains, and with it, the determination to keep those they love alive, and Mathias and Johannes at the same time discovering that what originally condemned them--their writing--might also be their salvation"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Anonyms and pseudonyms; Authors; Jewish authors; Jews; Nazis;
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- 50 Children : One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany / by Pressman, Steven.; Shapiro, Paul.; Holocaust Memorial Museum.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939 -- the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States during a time when deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped much of the country.
- Subjects: Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.; Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.; Children; Children; Jewish children in the Holocaust.; Jewish refugees; Refugee children; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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- Boy 30529 : a memoir / by Weinberg, Felix Jiri.;
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- Subjects: Weinberg, Felix Jiri; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust survivors;
- © 2013, Verso,
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- One life [videorecording] / by Bonham Carter, Helena,1966-actor.; Hawes, James,film director.; Hopkins, Anthony,1937-actor.; Olin, Lena,actor.; Coxon, Lucinda,1962-screenwriter.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
- Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn, Tim Steed."Tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Germans on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save"--Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Winton, Nicholas, 1909-2015; Jewish refugees; Jewish children; Jewish children in the Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Kindertransports (Rescue operations);
- For private home use only.
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- Two roads home [text (large print)] : Hitler, Stalin and the miraculous survival of my family / by Finkelstein, Daniel,1962-author.; container of (work):Finkelstein, Daniel,1962-Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam, where they became close with Anne Frank's family. But they were eventually separated, and Daniel's mother Mirjam was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters while Alfred worked feverishly to free them. Finkelstein's father, Ludwik, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control, Finkelstein's grandfather was deported to Siberia, while Ludwik and his mother were sent to Kazahkstan, where they barely survived freezing winters and harrowing forced labor conditions. Two Roads Home is a page-turning account of ingenuity, bravery and the almost unbelievable coincidences that brought Daniel's parents together. The story features secret archives, forgery and theft, and sweeps across Europe to show the expanse of the war. Moving, engrossing and inspiring, Love and Murder will profoundly touch all who read it"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Finkelstein, Daniel, 1962-; Finkelstein, Ludwik, 1929-2011.; Finkelstein, Mirjam, 1933-2017.; Finkelstein family.; Wiener family.; Wiener Library; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Jewish families; Jews; Polish people; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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- Two roads home : Hitler, Stalin and the miraculous survival of my family / by Finkelstein, Daniel,1962-author.; container of (work):Finkelstein, Daniel,1962-Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam, where they became close with Anne Frank's family. But they were eventually separated, and Daniel's mother Mirjam was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters while Alfred worked feverishly to free them. Finkelstein's father, Ludwik, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control, Finkelstein's grandfather was deported to Siberia, while Ludwik and his mother were sent to Kazahkstan, where they barely survived freezing winters and harrowing forced labor conditions. Two Roads Home is a page-turning account of ingenuity, bravery and the almost unbelievable coincidences that brought Daniel's parents together. The story features secret archives, forgery and theft, and sweeps across Europe to show the expanse of the war. Moving, engrossing and inspiring, Love and Murder will profoundly touch all who read it"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Finkelstein, Daniel, 1962-; Finkelstein, Ludwik, 1929-2011.; Finkelstein, Mirjam, 1933-2017.; Finkelstein family.; Wiener family.; Wiener Library; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Jewish families; Jews; Polish people; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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- The dovekeepers [videorecording] / by Brosnahan, Rachel,actor.; Neill, Sam,actor.; Pablo, Cote de,1979-actor.; Prescott, Kathryn,actor.; Simoneau, Yves,television director.; Television adaptation of (work):Hoffman, Alice.Dovekeepers.Videorecording.; CBS Broadcasting Inc.,broadcaster.; CBS DVD (Firm),publisher.; Paramount Home Media Distribution,film distributor.;
- Cote De Pablo, Rachel Brosnahan, Kathryn Prescott, Sam Neill, Diego Boneta, Jonas Armstrong, Andrei Claude.Based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The series recounts the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique back stories, but a common bond for survival.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Female friendship; Historical television programs.; Identity (Psychology); Jews; Man-woman relationships; Religious television programs.; Television mini-series.; Women;
- For private home use only.
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- The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska / by Cameron, Sharon,1970-;
- Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyâsl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.LSC
- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
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- Lives reclaimed : a story of rescue and resistance in Nazi Germany / by Roseman, Mark,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of a remarkable but largely unsung group known as the Bund, League of Socialist Life, which went on to resist the Nazis during WWII, sheltering Jews and covertly sending letters and parcels into concentration camps, among other activities"--
- Subjects: Bund--Gemeinschaft für Sozialistisches Leben; Anti-Nazi movement; World War, 1939-1945; Government, Resistance to; Socialists;
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- My mother's secret : based on a true Holocaust story / by Witterick, J. L.;
- In 1939, the Nazis come to Poland and start to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence, but despite this, Franciszka and her daughter hide Jewish families and a German soldier in their small home. For all of them to survive, she will have to outsmart the German commander and her neighbors.LSC
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Hiding places; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
- © 2013., Penguin Group,
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