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“hanna krall”

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  • Chasing the King of Hearts

    by Hanna Krall ...
    Translated by Philip Boehm ...
    Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize. "Krall's newly translated story of love during the Holocaust is a profound and uplifting masterpiece." — The GuardianIn this canonical work of Polish reportage, Hanna Krall crafts a terse and unexpected human lesson out of a Holocaust novel and love story. A raw interplay of history and fiction spanning the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Zionist Israel, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman from Hamburg

    and Other True Stories

    by Hanna Krall ...
    In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

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    My journey from the Holocaust to Ireland

    by Zoltan Zinn-Collis, Alicia McAuley ...
    At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen concentration camp he survived the inhuman brutality of the SS guards, the ravages of near starvation, disease, and squalor. All but one of his family died there, his mother losing her life on the very day the British finally marched into the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Eagle Unbowed

    Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

    by Halik Kochanski ...
    In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following the destruction of its armed forces in the autumn of 1939, the Republic of Poland was partitioned between Nazi and Soviet forces and officially ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger

    Revised Edition

    by Carolyn Gammon, Israel Unger ...
    Series series Life Writing
    At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Anne Frank's Family

    The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos

    by Mirjam Pressler ...
    The story is one that is envisioned by many: a relative, an old woman who has lived in the same home for a lifetime, passes away, her death prompting the inevitable task of sorting through her effects by her surviving family. But in the attic in this particular house, a treasure trove of historic importance is found. Rarely does this become an actuality, but when Helene Elias died, no one could ... Read more

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  • Vera Gran-The Accused

    by Agata Tuszynska ...
    The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945

    Beyond the Limits of Solidarity

    by Ewa Kurek ...
    The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From ... Read more

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  • Final Solution

    The Fate of Jews, 1933–1949

    by David Cesarani ...
    This groundbreaking history of the Holocaust presents "a brilliant synthesis and interpretation of the greatest crime of the modern era…harrowing and extraordinary" ( The Times , UK).David Cesarani's Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe's Jews during and directly after World War II. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from ... Read more

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  • Journal 1935–1944

    The Fascist Years

    by Mihail Sebastian ...
    Series series Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew’s diary, a reader’s notebook, a music-lover’s journal. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • No Time to Mourn

    by Leon Kahn ...
    Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler’s forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn watched as the women and children of his community were herded into a gravel pit and murdered. Realizing that to stay meant certain death, Kahn tore off his yellow ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper behind Nazi Lines

    by Yoel Palgi, David Engel, Phyllis Palgi ...
    In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out ... Read more

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