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We were the lucky ones / by Hunter, Georgia,1978-author.;
An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death by working endless hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an extraordinary will to survive and by the fear that they may never see each other again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. In a novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports readers from the jazz clubs of Paris to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to Krakow's most brutal prison and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment"--
Subjects: Jewish fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish families; Jews, Polish; World War, 1939-1945;
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The tailor project : how 2,500 Holocaust survivors found a new life in Canada / by Knight, Andrea,author.; Bryck, Nicole,author.; Draper, Paula,author.; Troper, Harold,1942-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239).The remarkable story of approximately 2,500 Jewish tailors and their families who immigrated to Canada between 1948 and 1949 through the Garment Workers' Scheme in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Researchers interviewed nearly 100 tailors and their families.
Subjects: Biographies.; Holocaust survivors' families; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Tailors; World War, 1939-1945;
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The full catastrophe / by Cook, Méira,1964-author.;
"The Full Catastrophe is the story of Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, and his grandfather, Oscar, a ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor and Charlie's best friend and confidante. Because the Nazis disrupted Oscar's opportunity for a bar mitzvah, Charlie decides to right the historical wrong and arrange for a joint bar mitzvah for himself and his zeide. Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the Orthodox Jewish father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his biological differences, Charlie navigates assorted catastrophes thanks to his grandfather's love and the makeshift family who surround him: his mother's best friend Weeza, a couple of elderly shut-in neighbours, a mysterious girl in his class who has dark secrets of her own, and his desperately needy and perpetually flatulent dog, Gellman. The Full Catastrophe is a novel of psychological complexity, tenderness, humour, and community. It is about becoming men; a novel of secrets and the journeys these secrets propel."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grandfathers; Holocaust survivors; Single mothers;
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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;
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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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I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir / by Foer, Esther Safran,author.;
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds not only reshapes her identity but gives her the long-denied opportunity to mourn the all-but-forgotten dead"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Foer, Esther Safran; Children of Holocaust survivors;
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The sisters of Auschwitz : the true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory / by Iperen, Roxane van,author.; Zwart, Joni,1979-translator.; translation of:Iperen, Roxane van.Hooge Nest.English.;
'The Sisters of Auschwitz' is an unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of WWII: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozens of lives through their safehouse in the countryside of Holland, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust. Based on meticulous research and unprecedented access to the Brilleslijpers personal archives of memoirs and photos.
Subjects: Biographies.; Brilleslijper, Janny.; Brilleslijper, Lien.; Brilleslijper family.; Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Three minutes [videorecording] : a lengthening / by Bonham Carter, Helena,1966-narrator.; Clemens, Guy,voice actor.; Dudkiewcz, Thomas,voice actor.; Kurtz, Glenn,screenwriter.; Sterke, Wilko,composer (expression); Stigter, Bianca,screenwriter,film director.; Wartena, Katharina,editor of moving image work.;
Editor, Katharina Wartena ; composer, Wilko Sterke.Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter ; voices, Thomas Dudkiewcz & Guy Clemens.Three Minutes: A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Kurtz, Glenn; Kurtz, Glenn; Amateur films; Community life; Holocaust survivors.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;
For private home use only.
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Broken strings / by Walters, Eric,1957-; Kacer, Kathy,1954-;
In the aftermath of the twin towers and the death of her beloved grandmother, Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. She auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is given the part of the old Jewish mother. While looking for props in her grandfather's attic, Shirli discovers an old violin in the corner. Showing it to her grandfather unleashes an anger in him she has never seen before.LSC
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Holocaust survivors; Music; Children's plays; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Family secrets;
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But you did not come back / by Loridan, Marceline,1928-; Loridan, Marceline,1928-Tu n'es pas revenu.English.; Perrignon, Judith,author.; Smith, Sandra,1949-translator.;
Subjects: Loridan, Marceline, 1928-; Loridan, Marceline, 1928-; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Women motion picture producers and directors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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