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  • The Wilkomirski Affair

    A Study in Biographical Truth

    by Stefan Maechler ...
    This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received major prizes and was ... Read more

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  • Irena's Children

    The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Last Jews in Berlin

    by Leonard Gross ...
    New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin—and survived: "Consummately suspenseful" ( Los Angeles Times).When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five thousand remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had ... Read more

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  • Partisan's Memoir: Woman Of The Holocaust

    Woman of the Holocaust

    by Faye Schulman ...
    Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were soon lost in the horrors of the Holocaust. But Faye survived, and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed. Decorated for heroism by several ... Read more

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  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

    by Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden ...
    "[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers WeeklyMarthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their ... Read more

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  • Sons and Soldiers

    The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

    by Bruce Henderson ...
    New York Times bestseller. The definitive story of the Ritchie Boys, as featured on CBS's 60 Minutes. "A spellbinding account of extraordinary men at war." — USA TodayThey were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. Their ... Read more

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  • Escape From Sobibor

    The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp

    by Richard Rashke ...
    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open ... Read more

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  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    by Francine Prose ...
    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

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  • 1924

    The Year That Made Hitler

    by Peter Ross Range ...
    This biography delves into the fateful year of Hitler's imprisonment, in which he wrote the manifesto that would propel him to power.Before his terrible rise to power on the world stage, Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason for organizing the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. He spent much of the following year in prison. This was the time of his final transformation into the self-proclaimed ... Read more

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  • The Diary of Mary Berg

    Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition

    by Mary Berg ...
    The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout.This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the ... Read more

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  • Letters from Nuremberg

    My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice

    by Christopher Dodd, Lary Bloom ...
    For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of 1945, soon after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, Thomas J. Dodd, the father of U.S. Senator ... Read more

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  • The Shadows Behind Me

    by Willie Sterner ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    For six desperate years, Willie Sterner’s skill as a painter saved him from death at the hands of the Nazis. Faced with inhumane conditions in slave labour camps and grieving the loss of his close-knit family, Sterner relied on courage and ingenuity to hold onto his dignity. Through almost random luck, he came under the protection of the famed Oskar Schindler and became his personal art restorer. ... Read more

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