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Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
Andrew Nagorski - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Hitlers rise to power, Germanys march to the abyss, as seen by Americansdiplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athleteswho watched horrified and up close. Some of the Americans in Hitlers Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind, a few were Nazi apologists.... |
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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Based on the gripping real-life story of the author, this poignant, suspenseful middle-grade novel has been a favorite for over forty years. Perfect for Holocaust Remembrance Month.Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning, Anna and her brother... |
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White Bird: A Wonder Story
R.J. Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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The author of Wonder has written and illustrated a lovely graphic novel that delves into the history of Julian’s family. You remember Julian, right? The kid who made life miserable for Auggie and anyone else who disagreed with him? This is the story of his Grandmére,... |
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
James Q. Whitman - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American... |
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Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Loïc Dauvillier - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Nazis by a series of neighbors and friends who risked their lives to keep her alive when... |
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Michael Dobbs - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust... |
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The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss - HarperCollins
Format: Library Binding
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A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II. |
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Sarah Churchwell - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream"... |
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport.Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi... |
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
Julie Lindahl - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: eBook
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This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed... |
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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Megan Shepherd - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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"Deserves a spot on the shelf next to the most beloved children's classics - yes, even The Secret Garden." - Shelf Awareness, Starred ReviewDescribed as "reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia" in a starred review, The Secret Horses of Briar... |
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The Length of a String
Elissa Brent Weissman - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see family in a new way.Imani knows exactly what she wants as her big bat mitzvah gift:... |
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Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers,... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition
Tilar J Mazzeo - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar Schindler" - who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II - now adapted... |
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