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Publisher
Jewish Lights Publishing, a division of LongHill Partners, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors--theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities--from sixteen countries on six continents reflect on how the memories transmitted to them have affected their lives.--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret-keeping. She begins her story with the discovery that she has been disinherited in her mother's will, her existence as a member of the family erased, and she writes with unflinching candor about growing up in a household whose members were devoted to hiding the truth. The younger and infinitely...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"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...
7) Protektor
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order to survive and protect his wife. Ironically, this choice...
Author
Publisher
Ruskin Publications
Pub. Date
2021
Description
'A true story based on the lives of two people whose love, faith, and will to survive transcended one of the darkest periods in human history...the Holocaust. Strength of the human spirit As the last remaining captives were being herded towards the trains, David whispered in Dora's ear. "No matter where they take us, we will meet back here in the Square, when this is over. Stay strong my Love, and know my thoughts and prayers are with you."...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. It seemed there was a mystery to her survival, which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. Were they coincidences or something else? And hos is it possible that when giving testimony later in life, Mira says it was during the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Presented in a graphic novel format, a memoir of the author's experience of growing up in the 1950s with Holocaust survivor parents describes their memories of family members lost in the war and the author's observations about memory and loss.
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