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War in the Shadow of Auschwitz : Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps
by Wiernicki, John |
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John Wiernicki fought against the Nazis in Poland and was imprisoned at various times in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and Sonder concentration camps. In this memoir, he recounts his experiences as a privileged gentile youth, his military service with the Polish Home Army, his time as a prisoner, and his eventual escape from the Ohrdruf camp. He also describes the differential treatment of Jews and non-Jews in the camps. c. Book News Inc.
Edison/Lee CirculationD811.W4827 2001 |
The Zookeeper’s Wife
by Diane Ackerman |
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"Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history." "Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, Diane Ackerman re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests" - Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose cages they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself." "Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet."--BOOK JACKET.
Edison/Lee CirculationDS134.64.A25 2007 |
The Bielski Brothers : The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest
by Duffy, Peter |
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It is one of the most remarkable dramas of World War II -- untold until now. In 1941, three young men -- brothers, sons of a miller -- witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. What makes this particular story of interest is how the survivors responded. Instead of running or capitulating or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- did something else entirely. They fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits and cunning against both the Nazis and the pro-Nazi sympathizers. Along the way they saved well over a thousand Jewish lives. Using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the Belorussian towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to join their ranks. When the Nazis began systematically eliminating the local Jewish populations -- more than ten thousand were killed in the first year of the Nazi occupation alone -- the Bielskis intensified their efforts, often sending fighting men into the ghettos to escort Jews to safety. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge, a "Jerusalem in the woods." They slept in camouflaged dugouts built into the ground. Lovers met, were married, and conceived children. The community boasted a synagogue, a bathhouse, a theater, and cobblers so skilled that Russian officers would wait in line to have their boots reshod. But as its notoriety grew, so too did the Nazi efforts to capture the rugged brothers; and on several occasions they came so near to succeeding that the Bielskis had to abandon the camp and lead their massive entourage to newer, safer locations. And while some argued in favor of a smaller, more mobile unit, focused strictly on waging battle against the Germans, Tuvia Bielski was firm in his commitment to all Jews. "I'd rather save one old Jewish woman," he said, "than kill ten Nazis." In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive -- on that final, triumphant exit from the woods. The Bielski Brothers is a dramatic and heartfelt retelling of a story of the truest heroism, a historic testament to courage in the face of unspeakable adversity.
Edison/Lee CirculationDS135.B383D84 2003 |
Resilience and Courage : Women, Men, and the Holocaust
by Tec, Nechama |
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In this riveting book Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust. Her research draws on a variety of sources: wartime diaries, postwar memoirs, a range of archival materials, and most important, direct interviews with Holocaust survivors. Tec reveals how women and men on the road to annihilation developed distinct coping strategies and how mutual cooperation and compassion operated across gender lines. "Tec is able to paint a more nuanced picture of the realities of Jewish resistance than previous historians. . . . A remarkable and important book."--"Tikkun""Tec offers compelling evidence that gender-related analyses add significantly to our understanding of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust."--"Jewish Book World""While this is a work of powerful emotionality, it is also a groundbreaking study of how gender is inexplicably bound to history and experience."--"Publishers Weekly
Edison/Lee CirculationD804.47.T43 2003
Documentaries
Weapons of the Spirit
Nazi Concentration Camps
Paper Clips
Auschwitz—Inside the Nazi State
From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust
Anne Frank Remembered
Genocide
Liberation
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel and Bill Moyers
Night and Fog
The Long Way Home
Unlikely Heroes
Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
The Boys of Buchenwald
Displaced! Miracle at St. Ottilien
Elie Wiesel Goes Home
Holocaust: the relevance to the New Century
The Last Days
Facing Hate
The Lost Children of Berlin
Partisans of Vilna
Survivors of the Holocaust
Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial
The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions
The Longest Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism
Drama
Schindler’s List (based on a true story)
Europa Europa (based on a true story)
The Pianist (based on a true story)
The Grey Zone (based on a true story)
Army of Shadows (loosely based on actual events)
The Black Book
On the Theme of Resistance
Weapons of the Spirit
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers during WWII
Unlikely Heroes
Schindler’s List
Army of Shadows
Partisans of Vilna
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