Holocaust survivor interview, 2017

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  • Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Thre... [Read More]

  • Courage and Grace: A Jewish Family's Holocaust True Survival Story During WW2 (World War II Memoir)

    • ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS

    If their secret is discoveredThey will not survive…While the Holocaust rages, two very young brothers, Joseph and Yitzhak, adopt false Christian identities and hide in the Aryan side of Polish cities and countryside.Their lives, as well as the lives of their parents, swing wildly between the terror of being apprehended by the cruel regime and col... [Read More]

  • First One In, Last One Out: Auschwitz Survivor 31321

    • ASIN: B01M09JG3P

    While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts—until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects... [Read More]

  • When I Fall, I Shall Rise: A Holocaust Survivor Memoir

    • ASIN: B07L2ZKQQR

    It all began in 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary. This is when Risa Shtauber’s life turned from an ordinary life to one of surviving unspeakable horrors. Risa was shipped together with many other Jews to the Oradea Ghetto and from there to the Plaszow Labor Camp and later to the Ober-Altstadt Labor camp. And even this was not enough… Risa... [Read More]

  • Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

    • ASIN: 0439669960
    • ISBN: 0439669960
    • Brand: Zullo, Allan/ Bovsun, Mara
    • Size: 5 1/4" x 7 5/8"
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks

    Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust.These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way to make it ... [Read More]

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    • ASIN: 0897333764
    • ISBN: 9780897333764
    • Brand: Academy Chicago Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Publishers

    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It w... [Read More]

  • Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

    Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke ... [Read More]

  • Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust

    • ASIN: 0062489968
    • ISBN: 0062489968
    • Brand: GREENWILLOW
    • Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

    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 what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) ... [Read More]

  • My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    • ASIN: B00DUGZZ1U
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.   Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their h... [Read More]

  • Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

    • ASIN: 1933718579
    • ISBN: 1933718579
    • Brand: Tanglewood Press
    • Manufacturer: Tanglewood

    Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's sur... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

    • ASIN: 0425279766
    • ISBN: 9780425279762
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...   After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniles... [Read More]

  • Auschwitz Escape - The Klara Wizel Story

    • ASIN: B00RKSLBYE

    At sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when she and her family are swept up with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews and forcibly transported to one of the world's most infamous concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau. There Klara comes face to face with one of history’s most infamous Nazi ... [Read More]

  • Among the Reeds: The true story of how a family survived the Holocaust

    • ASIN: B071G6Y11V
    • Manufacturer: Amsterdam Publishers

    A young Jewish mother. A Nazi occupation bent on genocide. A heart-breaking decision that will tear a young family apart. Belgium, 1940. Melly Bottner is just eighteen with a three-week old newborn son when the Nazi occupation of Belgium begins. She and her young husband Genek live in fear as it becomes obvious that all Jews will soon be taken. Wat... [Read More]

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    • ASIN: B009U9S6FI
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • A Train Near Magdeburg_The Holocaust, the survivors, and the American soldiers who saved them

    • ASIN: B01LVXDO72

    It's not a novel. It's not 'based on a true story.' It really happened, and I am a witness. You will be, too... What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like? As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when y... [Read More]

  • The Strange Ways of Providence In My Life: An Amazing WW2 Survival True Story (A Jewish Girl's Holocaust Book Surviving Memoir)

    • ASIN: B00W0G0C1E
    • Manufacturer: eBookPro

    A young girl’s survival story against all odds in the face of pure evilKrystyna's childhood was full of happy moments, it was filled with friends, both Polish and Ukrainian and a lovely family. But her happy childhood did not last long; World War II changed it forever.Krystyna’s family, together with the Jewish community of her small village, w... [Read More]

  • The Paris Seamstress

    • ASIN: B079L51HZG
    • Manufacturer: Forever

    For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family.1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known... [Read More]

  • The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

    • UPC: 884641071366
    • ASIN: 1442497823
    • ISBN: 1442497823
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

    “Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfe... [Read More]

  • Holocaust survivor interview, 2017

    Holocaust survivor recalls time at Auschwitz

    A Holocaust survivor tells her story | DW Documentary