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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Weaving together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film, this 90-minute film explores the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of Kurt Klein, who struggled with State Department red tape to free his parents from Europe, represents America's reaction to European Jews clamoring for rescue.
Author
Publisher
Plympton
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1938 Germany, Where The Heart Is chronicles the moves of a Jewish woman, Sophie, as she travels from war-torn Europe to South America, finally settling in the United States. Sophie's life is full of ups and downs, but the one thing that remains the same is her resilience and adaptability. Including real pictures of Sophie and her husband, Leslie Berlin weaves together a beautiful narrative that effectively captures what it's like to have...
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English
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A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life... Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels' seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate...
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Other Press
Language
English
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Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist's vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter's pursuit of a haunting question: what had almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
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English
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"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the...
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English
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1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and...
9) Heretics
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English
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"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
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English
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"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
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English
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"Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery....
13) Exodus
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1958
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
626 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of the nation of Israel and its struggle for existence told through the eyes of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
15) Day after night
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Language
English
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Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants, run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast north of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust with profoundly different stories, who come to find salvation in the bonds of friendship. (Bestseller)...
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English
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In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
18) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the Kindertransport : a memoir of music, love, and survival
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First trade edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
xi, 272 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
- THE CHILDREN OF WILLESDEN LANE was published in Warner hardcover in 4/02 and received strong reviews from the "Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and "Publishers Weekly, among others.- Golabek's heartwrenching tale will appeal to readers interested in inspirational stories and in the personal experiences of those who survived WWII. Interest in the Kindertransport is high, with the Oscar win for "Into the Arms of Strangers for Best Documentary.-...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy and falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 415 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early days of WWII, American Claire Stewart smuggles five French Jewish children across the channel before the Nazis storm Paris, and brings them to her estranged aunt's Lake District estate as refugees. Lady Miranda Langford agrees to take them in, but only if Claire stays to help care for them. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire agrees, and soon fellow American David Campbell challenges her notions of love....
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