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1995., Hill and Wang Call No: 940.5318 K64k Edition: A new, expanded ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2007., Azrieli Foundation Call No: 940.5318 R371b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs
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By Charney, Ann1995., Douglas & McIntyre Call No: QWF Bio C483d c.2 Edition: 1st Douglas & McIntyre ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2007., Azrieli Foundation Call No: FR 940.5318 R371f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs
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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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2021., William Morrow Call No: 940.53 B328l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This young readers' edition tells the remarkable story, largely forgotten until now, of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. It has already been optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture. As their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into resistance factions. These "ghetto girls" helped build systems of underground bunkers, paid off the Gestapo, and bombed German train lines. At the center of the book is eighteen-year-old Renia Kukielka, who traveled across her war-torn country as a weapons smuggler and messenger. Other women who joined the cause served as armed fighters, spies, and saboteurs, all risking their lives for their missions. Never before chronicled in full, this is the incredible account of the strong Jewish women who fought back against the seemingly unstoppable Nazi regime. It follows the women through arrests, internment, and for a lucky few, into the late 20th century and beyond.
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2003., Adult, TVA Films Call No: DVD Fic Pianist Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man who is revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman's eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
![The pianist [DVD] (2002). Directed by Roman Polanski](/Library/images/~imageCT83186.JPG "The pianist [DVD] (2002). Directed by Roman Polanski")
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2007., Azrieli Foundation Call No: 940.5318 S561v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs
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2007., Azrieli Foundation Call No: FR 940.5318 S561v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs
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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.
