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By Shepard, Jimc2015., 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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2006., Pre-adolescent, David Fickling Books Call No: Fic Boy Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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-- Rebellion2009., Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Defiance Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occupying Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests to undertake the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of Polish Jews fleeing from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery, must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take on the responsibility of guardians and motivate hundreds of women, men, children and elderly to join their fight against the Nazi regime while hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold, unforgiving forest. At the same time, the brothers turn a band of war defectors into powerful freedom fighters. Based on true events.
![Defiance [DVD] (2008). Directed by Edward Zwick.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Defiance [DVD] (2008). Directed by Edward Zwick.")
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c2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Sem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A finalist for the Nordic Council Award, and an international sensation, THE EMPEROR OF LIES is a powerfully moving story set in World War II Poland. In February 1940, the Nazis established the a Jewish ghetto in the city of ódz. It's chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. This story chronicles his monarchial rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Drawing on detailed records of life in the Lodz ghetto, Sem-Sandberg asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration polices?"--Publisher.
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Ã2018., Harper Call No: Fic Mor Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a TÃntowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her"--Dust jacket flap.
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2018., Adult, HarperCollins Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism - but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.
![The tattooist of Auschwitz [eBook] : A Novel](/Library/images/~imageCT100145.JPG "The tattooist of Auschwitz [eBook] : A Novel")
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2017., Penguin Group (USA) Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth centuryœs darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.
![We Were the Lucky Ones [eBook] : A Novel](/Library/images/~imageCT84854.JPG "We Were the Lucky Ones [eBook] : A Novel")
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2017., Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Zookeeper's Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance.
![The zookeeper's wife [DVD] (2017). Directed by Niki Caro.](/Library/images/~imageCT84767.JPG "The zookeeper's wife [DVD] (2017). Directed by Niki Caro.")