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  • 100 Cigarettes and a Bottle of Vodka

    A Memoir

    by Arthur Schaller ...
    Winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award 2000100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka – the reward in German-occupied Poland for turning in a Jew.Arthur Schaller was eleven when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Along with the rest of the Jewish population of Warsaw, he and his family were confined in the Ghetto. His father had escaped to Soviet-occupied territory, so Arthur, his mother, and his brother ... Read more

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  • Hana's Suitcase

    by Karen Levine ...
    Series Book 3 - Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers
    Hana's Suitcase, the acclaimed children's book read by thousands of children around the world - In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner - Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind (the German word for orphan). Children visiting the center ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Test Of Courage: Michel Thomas: A Biography Of The Holocaust Survivor And Nazi-Hunter By Christopher Robbins

    by Christopher Robbins ...
    The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of wisdom. Until his death in 2005, he taught languages to ghetto kids, heads of industry and movie stars in a matter of days, succeeding even with people who considered themselves hopeless linguists. To those who have been taught by him, he seemed to be a miracle worker with a ... Read more

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  • Escape From Sobibor

    The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp

    by Richard Rashke ...
    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open ... Read more

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  • A Time to Speak

    by Helen Lewis ...
    ‘Helen Lewis survived the greatest nightmare ever dreamed by man. Her story is appalling, mesmerising, and one reads with increasing gratitude for her clarity, honesty and courage.’ Ian McEwanHelen Lewis, a young student of dance in Prague at the outbreak of WW2 was herded, like Madeleine Albright, into the Terezin ghetto, then shipped to Auschwitz, in 1942. Separated from her family, she ... Read more

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  • The Eichmann Trial

    by Deborah E. Lipstadt ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    *****NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)***Part of the Jewish Encounter series**The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Dentist of Auschwitz

    A Memoir

    by Benjamin Jacobs ...
    " In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau; spent a year and a half in Auschwitz, where he was forced to remove gold teeth from corpses; ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Dachau Concentration Camp

    A Guide to the former Concentration Camp and the Memorial Site

    by Nicolas Simon Mitchell ...
    Hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit Dachau Memorial Site each year. Any visitor to the Memorial Site will find that the Memorial Site bookshop stocks two publications worthy of particular mention, both deal at length with the history of the former concentration camp; Stanislav Zamecnik's ,outstanding, That Was Dachau and the superb Catalogue for the Exhibition: The Dachau ... Read more

    $3.69 CAD

  • The Last Of The Sonderkommando

    by Mark Stephens ...
    An uncompromising account of the bloody persecution of the Jews, and others, in the Ukraine and the terrors of the Nazi death camps will shock and horrify many readers. All the events are as told by one of the survivors, Carl the main character in the book (although that was not his real name). The horror is real, the story is real, and it is as accurate as he, an old man when he related it in ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

    Based on the Book by Tilar J. Mazzeo

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Irena's Children tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Tilar J. Mazzeo's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Irena's Children includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

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  • If Home is Not Here

    by Max Bornstein ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Max Bornstein’s epic account of a poor Jewish boy born in 1920s Poland is breathtaking in scope. Not quite two when he immigrates to Canada, he returns to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he manages to escape as France falls to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. Rich in details of pre-war ... Read more

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  • Miracles Do Happen

    by Fela and Felix Rosenbloom ...
    In 1933, a ten-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three children in the Rozenblum family — Rose, Felix, and Maria. Fela and Rose became best friends, while Felix kept his distance. Five years later, Fela and Felix discovered that they liked each other, and soon became sweethearts.When war broke out not long after, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD