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Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles. Based on her diary.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts—until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects Murray Scheinberg’s stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Helen Fremont was raised Roman Catholic in America, only to discover in adulthood that her parents were Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Delving into the extraordinary secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than forty years, she recounts with heartbreaking clarity and candor a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the eloquence of truth."--BOOK JACKET. "When Helen was small, her mother taught her...
Author
Publisher
Imagine and Wonder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of survival,...