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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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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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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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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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-- Writings of a Jewish girl from the Lodz Ghetto.2015., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Bio R988r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After more than seventy years in obscurity, the diary of a teenage girl during the Holocaust has been revealed for the first time. Rywka's Diary is at once an astonishing historical document and a moving tribute to the many ordinary people whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust. At its heart, it is the diary of a girl named Rywka Lipszyc who detailed the brutal conditions that Jews in the Lodz ghetto, the second largest in Poland, endured under the Nazis: poverty, hunger and malnutrition, religious oppression, and, in Rywka's case, the death of her parents and siblings.
