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War According to Anna

Kamilla C Chadwick
Format: Paperback

Someone once said, "Some things we see too soon for them to make an impression." That is Anna's story. She didn't know the meaning of rape, or that her mother was living the war on a different level, but Anna did know that all beautiful women were part of the spoils of w
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

Zlata Filipovic

The experiences of Zlata Filipovic+a7 from 1991 through 1993 in Sarajevo reveal an innocent life of piano lessons and birthday parties horrifyingly transformed into days of food shortages, friends dying, and hiding out in a neighbor's cellar during bombings. Reprint. --This...
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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank - ‎Bantam; Reissue edition
Format: Audiobook

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Franks remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old...
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The death train: A personal account of a holocaust survivor

Luba Krugman Gurdus

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Return to Auschwitz

Kitty Hart

Here is the amazing, true story of a young Polish girl who survived the Holocaust and returned to Auschwitz to film an award-winning documentary for television.
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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

Laura Hillman - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn. Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo...
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Clara's Story

Clara Isaacman

The author describes her own and her family's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent in hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.
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SEED OF SARAH

Judith Magyar Isaacson

The author tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, through her coming -of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, and her marriage to an American officer.
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

Livia Bitton-Jackson - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fates that enabled her to survive.
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Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Ruth Klüger
Format: Paperback

Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps whi
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Mischling, second degree: My childhood in Nazi Germany

Ilse Koehn

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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Mixed Blessings: An Almost Ordinary Life in Hitler's Germany

Heinz R Kuehn

University of Georgia Press, 1988, As new., Bright, clean, tight, in dust jacket. First printing. [World War II, Germany] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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A Time to Speak

Helen Lewis

On 15 March 1939, Germany troops entered Prague and for Czechoslovakian Jews the terror began. This is the story of one of the survivors.
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

Anita Lobel - Greenwillow Book/Collins
Format: Paperback

Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Krakw, Poland. Her life changed forever. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to convent - where the Nazis finally caught up with...
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Doctor 117641: A Holocaust Memoir

Louis J Micheels

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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

Lila Perl

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. "The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in w
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A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969

Johanna Reiss - Melville House
Format: Print book

For years, Johanna Reiss' American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland. In 1969, she finally made the trip.Accompanied by Jim and their two young children,...
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The Upstairs Room

Johanna Reiss - HarperCollins; Reissue edition
Format: Braille book

A Life in HidingWhen the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they...
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Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust

Maxine B Rosenberg

First-person accounts of fourteen Holocaust survivors who as children were hidden from the Nazis by non-Jews.
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Bondi's Brother

Irving Roth
Format: Book

Book by Roth, Irving and Edward Roth
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Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank

Eva Schloss - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don't know about Eva Schloss, Anne's playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This...
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Speak You Also: A Holocaust Memoir

Paul Steinberg
Format: Book

In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, t
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Behind the Secret Window

Nelly S Toll

For 13 months during World War II, the author and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the house of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Eight-year-old Nelly began keeping a diary and producing brightly colored paintings that transformed her grim reality into an enchanting fantas
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Speak You Also: A Holocaust Memoir

Paul Steinberg
Format: Book

In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, t
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Night

Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book

A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,...
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Young People Speak: Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary

Andrew Handler
Format: Book

Eleven survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary recollect their childhood experiences during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution.
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Struggle

Sara Zyskind

Sturdy library binding. In her prologue, Zyskind writes a letter to her late husband, Eliezer, explaining that at last she is writing his memoirs, from his point of view. Then begins the first-person narration of the life of Eliezer--or Luzer--a Jewish child in Poland, whose adole
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