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      By Macadam, Heather Dune  Moorehead, Caroline
       2020., Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. Call No: 940.5318538 M113e   Edition: First Citadel hardcover.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women--many of them teenagers--were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive. The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish--but also because they were female. Now acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.
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      By Pick, Alison
       2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: BIO Bio P594b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From the Man Booker-nominated author of the novel Far to Go comes an unflinching, moving and unforgettable memoir about family secrets and the rediscovered past. Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a supportive, loving family in Kitchener, Ontario. As far as Pick knew, both her parents were Christian. Then as a teenager, Alison made a discovery that instantly changed her understanding of her family. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from the Czech Republic during WWII, were Jewish--and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. In her early thirties, engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend but struggling with a crippling depression, Alison slowly but doggedly began to research and uncover her Jewish heritage. Eventually she came to realize that her true path forward was to reclaim her history and indentity as a Jew. In this by times raw, by times sublime memoir, Alison recounts her struggle with the meaning of her faith, her journey to convert to Judaism, her battle with depression, and her path towards facing and accepting the past and embracing the future. Illuminated with heartbreaking insight into the very real lives of the dead, and hard-won hope for the lives of all those who carry on after. Alision Pick has published two volumes of poetry, and is a faculty member at the Humber School for Writers and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She lives in Toronto.
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      By Snyder, Timothy
       c2010., Basic Books Call No: 940.54 S67b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.
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      By Shepard, Jim
       c2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic She    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A deeply affecting novel about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it. Aron is a beguiling and perceptive and not always happy young boy coming into awareness of himself and his family's struggles. When they are driven from the countryside into Warsaw, their lives are changed forever. Aron and others risk their lives scuttling around the ghetto, smuggling and trading things to keep their people alive, while they are hunted by blackmailers and Jewish, Polish and German police, as gradually things catastrophically worsen, people begin to disappear, and survival is threatened on all sides.
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      By Rush, Geoffrey, 1951-  Watson, Emily, 1967-  Nélisse, Sophie
       2014., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Book T    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an 'extremely moving' (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him. Ultimately, words and imagination provide the friends with an escape from the events unfolding around them in this extraordinary, acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey)."--Container.
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      By Holden, Wendy, 1961-
       2015., Adult, Harper Call No: 940.531 H726b   Edition: First U.S. Edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey--first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave-labor camp, where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and, finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish seventeen-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Biographer Wendy Holden details the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, which helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, they meet for the first time. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they come to consider each other "siblings of the heart." A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, and a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and love amid inconceivable cruelty.