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1) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the kindertransport : a memoir of music, love, and survival
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Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport.
Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life changes irreversibly. Although he has three daughters, Lisa's father is only able to secure one berth on the Kindertransport. The family decides...
Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life changes irreversibly. Although he has three daughters, Lisa's father is only able to secure one berth on the Kindertransport. The family decides...
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Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Dershowitz takes a close look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. He accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry...
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Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.
Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr
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Readers of this book will delves into the lives of grandparents as two Jewish young adults struggling to survive the Holocaust. Following Joshua and Isadora independently, their narratives wend through war-ravaged Europe before fatefully intersecting on a refugee boat headed for Palestine. Their harrowing wartime saga is buttressed by notes from Benanav's own journey, more than half a century later, to revisit the roads and villages where his grandparents...
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Personal narratives by Johanna Franklin Saper, Rita Bymel, Ruth B. Schwarz, Gunther Karger, Nellie Lee, Anna Blitz, Ruth Glasberg Gold, Tova Goldszer, Magda Bader, George Klein, Jack Baigelman, Rose Kaplovitz, Bernard Mayer, David B. Zugman, Judy Berkowitz, Arnold Geier, Faye Lazega Stern, Frances Cutler, Louise Oberlender, Suzanne Ringel, Dena Azelrod, Elizabeth Zielinski de Mundlak, Bianca Lerner, Eugenia Schulz Rosen, Yosi Lazzar, and Peter Tarjan....
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In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children's book manuscripts, including what would become the international sensation "Curious George," among their few possessions. This is their dramatic story.
15) Kindertransport
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The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
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This book, covering the period after Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany in 1933 up to the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, describes the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany and Austria and explores the efforts of some Jews to emigrate to safety.
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In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
20) The gypsy moon
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"Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of Germany only to be trapped in Holland?"--Provided by publisher.