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  • Between the Lines

    The Diary of Margit Kassai

    by Margit Kassai ...
    Series Book 16 - The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When the Nazis invade Budapest in 1944, Margit Kassai begins to document her life in a diary in the form of a letter to her husband, who has been sent to do forced labour. With wry self-deprecation, dark humour and an incredible attention to detail, Margit describes the persecution of Jews and how she feels working in children’s homes and living under a false identity. Even as bombs fall around ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • By Chance Alone

    A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

    by Max Eisen ...
    WINNER of CBC Canada ReadsIn the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivorFinalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor PrizeMore than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Happiest Man on Earth

    The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

    by Eddie Jaku ...
    A New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting Holocaust survivor memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • I Can Live No Longer: The Story of an Indomitable Man, the only Volunteer to Auschwitz.

    by Jeremy Kowalski ...
    He evaded death so many times it seemed it would never take him. The only man in history to go to Auschwitz as a volunteer, to form a resistance movement and document German atrocities. One of the few who succeeded in escaping. He sent drawings from there to his children and wrote letters to his wife, delivering them via the underground conspiracy along with reports. The British historian Michael ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boy on the Wooden Box

    How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

    by Leon Leyson ...
    “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, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Holocaust

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror.While some of the eye-witnesses are well ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My Name Is Selma

    The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

    by Selma van de Perre ...
    An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Boy 30529

    A Memoir

    by Felix Weinberg ...
    **A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor.“Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist**In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Broken House

    Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

    by Horst Krüger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary MantelTwenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

    A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

    by Thomas Geve ...
    A real account of a boy's life during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald, recorded in his own words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men's camp of Auschwitz I.During twenty-two harsh months ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sister, Sister

    by Anna Rosner Blay ...
    From the busy marketplaces of pre-war Krakow, Poland, to the horror of the Holocaust and the haven of Schindler's factory, to the apparent peace and safety of a suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia, this is the story of two sisters who miraculously survived.Their extraordinary life stories are interwoven with the childhood and later memories of the narrator, Anna, daughter and niece of the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ghost Tattoo

    by Tony Bernard ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HOLOCAUST MEMOIRFor readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Watchmakers, a powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective—the story of a son’s quest to understand his father, a heroic, complicated Jewish survivor—and to uncover the hidden past and desperate choices he made when the Nazis recruited him to police ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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