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"In this [book, the author] unpicks the . . . complex layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over five hundred years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the globe. He considers core questions of why and when urban, racial, and colonial ghettos have appeared, and who they contain. Exploring their various identities, he shows how different ghettos interrelate, or are contrasted, across time and space, or even in the same...
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Provides first-person accounts of life for the Jews in the Nazi ghettos during World War II. Discusses their treatment within the ghettos, the spread of disease, and their eventual relocation to Nazi concentration and death camps. Includes a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Rywka Lipszyc fue una chica judia de catorce anos que vivio en el ghetto de odz, en Polonia. Entre 1943 y 1944 escribio un diario, en el que nos cuenta no solo los horrores de los que es testigo, sino tambien quienes son sus amigos y su familia, como le va en el trabajo y en la escuela, y cuales son sus suenos y esperanzas para el futuro. El diario fue hallado por una doctora del ejercito ruso en el crematorio de Auschwitz, que lo guardo como un tesoro....
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"This memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and dodging the threat of a Nazi capture. There are accounts of the family's narrow escapes to (and from) the Lodz, Warsaw, and Czestochowa ghettos and how members of the family survived through luck, deception, and will to live"--Provided by publisher.
7) Holocaust
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Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.
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"The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (n©♭e Ariana) were visiting their grandparents...
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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals--both Jews and Nazis--associated with it. The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals,...
11) Resistance
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In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.