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      [2015], The Azrieli Foundation Call No: Bio N552h   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The Azrieli series of holocaust survivor memoirsSummary Note: David Newmanœs gifts as a musician and a teacher carry him through years of brutality during the war. Torn from his family in Poland and deported for forced labour at Skarzysko-Kamienna, David battles desperation and the mounting death toll by writing songs, poems and satires about life in the camp. Later, in the infamous Buchenwald camp, the resistance recruits him for a clandestine initiative to protect the Jewish children there. With his soulful songs and his lessons for the children, David is able to rouse a chorus of hope, both in himself and those around him.
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      [2015], The Azrieli Foundation Call No: Bio S159n   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The Azrieli series of holocaust survivor memoirsSummary Note: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.
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      c2014., Adult, The Azrieli Foundation Call No: QWF Bio N568w   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs.Summary Note: Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and faced the realization that his family was gone. Under the protection of the Salesian Fathers as a Christian· boy, he struggled with loneliness, guilt, fear and indecision regarding his dual identity.· When the Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, then fourteen-year-old Arthur Ney joined the barricades and fought the Germans W Hour is the code name for the Uprising.
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      2015., The Azrieli Foundation Call No: Bio M996w    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The Azrieli series of holocaust survivor memoirs   Volume: 7Summary Note: In 1942, in the village of Champlost, France, ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer finds solace from the war. As her mother risks living in a Paris swarming with Nazis, the mayor of Champlost rips up letters of denunciation and the priest gives Muguette a new Catholic name, Marie. Sheltered by the kindness of the townspeople, Muguette delights in her new surroundings, filling her days by learning to ride a bike, recite catechism and adapt to rural life.Written in vignettes with child-like charm and innocence, Where Courage Lives provides rich insight into life in a small village against the backdrop of the war, paying tribute to both Muguetteœs indomitable mother and the courage of the people of Champlost.