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1999, c1974., General, Audiovision Canada Call No: DVD Fic Apprenticeship Edition: Descriptive version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young Jewish man in Montreal is driven by an insatiable desire to be a somebody, and stops at nothing to get there.
![The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [DVD] (1974). Directed by Ted Kotcheff.](/Library/images/~imageCT72880.JPG "The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [DVD] (1974). Directed by Ted Kotcheff.")
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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.
![The book thief [ DVD] (2014). Directed by Brian Percival](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The book thief [ DVD] (2014). Directed by Brian Percival")
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-- George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.[2007]., BBC Video : 2 Entertain : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Daniel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help-- only to discover his involvement with the young Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth. Torn between his attraction to Gwendolen and his passion for Mirah and the plight of her people, Daniel is forced to look at his own mysterious past and find out who he really is-- and who he wants to be.
![Daniel Deronda [DVD] (2002) Directed by Tom Hooper](/Library/images/~imageCT74004.JPG "Daniel Deronda [DVD] (2002) Directed by Tom Hooper")
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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.
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2002, p1999., General, Showtime Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Devil's A Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.
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2005., Adult, Warner Independent Pictures : Made available through hoopla Instantly available on hoopla. Cover image Summary Note: Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family's story under absurd circumstances turns into a meaningful journey with a powerful series of revelations -- the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the meaning of friendship.
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2005, p2006., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Everything Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young American man journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English.
![Everything is illuminated [DVD] (2006). Directed by Liev Schreiber.](/Library/images/~imageCT83634.JPG "Everything is illuminated [DVD] (2006). Directed by Liev Schreiber.")
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[2007], p1971., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Fiddler Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Decades collection Volume: 1970sSummary Note: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
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[2002, p1947)., General, Twentieth Century Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Gentleman Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: 20th Century Fox studio classics Volume: 2.Summary Note: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on antisemitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
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By Black, Edwinc2001., Crown Publishers Call No: 940.53 B627i Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2016., Adult, Elevation Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Indignation Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
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-- Inglorious Basterds[2009]., Adult, Alliance Vivafilm Call No: DVD Fic Inglourious Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler.
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2020., Adult, 108, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic JojoR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
![Jojo Rabbit [DVD] (2019). Directed by Taika Waititi.](/Library/images/~imageCT100929.JPG "Jojo Rabbit [DVD] (2019). Directed by Taika Waititi.")
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-- Tihyeh ve-tihyeh2005., Adult, Menemsha Films Call No: FR DVD Fic Live Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets. He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's parting request that he 'go, live, and become.' Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love - both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother - he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own."--Container.
![Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.](/Library/images/~imageCT72881.JPG "Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.")
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By Koehn, Ilsec1977., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books Call No: Bio K77m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.
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2003,p1984., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Once A Edition: Two-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An epic tale of the lives of two New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Friends from childhood, they entered a life of crime together that inevitably led to tragedy and death.
![Once upon a time in America [DVD] (1984) directed by Sergio Leone.](/Library/images/~imageCT73250.JPG "Once upon a time in America [DVD] (1984) directed by Sergio Leone.")
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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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1971., Wayland Call No: 943.086 B553t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Wayland documentary history series
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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.")