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  • My Wounded Heart

    Life of Lilli Jahn

    by Martin Doerry ...
    Translated by John Brownjohn ...
    An international sensation already sold in fifteen languages, this heartbreaking collection of recently discovered letters captures the destruction not only of a life but also of an entire nation.Born in 1900 to wealthy Jewish parents, Lilli Jahn stood firmly among the German bourgeoisie. A doctor by training, she married a young Protestant physician. Her husband divorced her in 1942, after ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Strings

    Fifteen-year-old Hanna Berkenski journeys from her family's tiny apartment in the Warsaw Ghetto through an awful night spent in a cattle-car with her mother and sister to the welcoming orchestra at Auschwitz where she was to be a violinist for three years.As the train arrives at Auschwitz, flowers, sunshine and music feel like warm welcomes to her. She's been told she'll be spending the next few ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Green Sweater

    A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

    Based on the true story explored in the Academy Award–nominated film, In Darkness, this holocaust memoir is "a gripping account of survival and friendship" ( Booklist).In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

    "[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers WeeklyMarthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their ... Read more

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  • I Shall Live

    Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

    I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command ... Read more

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  • Remembering Judith

    by Ruth Joseph ...
    A true story of shattered childhoods...Following her escape from Nazi Germany and the loss of her family Judith searches for unconditional love and acceptance. In a bleak boarding house she meets her future husband – another Jewish refugee who cares for her when she is ill.Tragically she associates illness with love and a pattern is set. Judith’s behaviour eventually spiral into anorexia – a ... Read more

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  • Unshed Tears

    A novel…but not a fiction

    by Edith Hofmann ...
    This true-life novel was written in the aftermath of the Second World War and the authors terrible experiences in a Nazi death camp. Judith, born in Prague was deported with her Jewish parents to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland when she was only 13. Within a year both her parents die and she is left alone to fend for herself. Her sanity is saved by the flowering of love with an extraordinary older man, ... Read more

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  • The Boy

    A Holocaust Story

    by Dan Porat ...
    "A poignant and riveting investigation" behind an iconic photograph of the Holocaust in Poland (Elie Wiesel)."An often disturbing, sometimes uplifting but always fascinating and incredible piece of history drawn from a single image. This book is destined to become a classic piece of work on the Holocaust." — The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV)A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A ... Read more

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  • A Special Brand of Courage

    A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Krystyna Louw ...
    The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes. ... Read more

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  • Against All Odds - a Miracle of Holocaust Survival

    The personal story of a young Jewish girl trapped in Nazi Germany. Separated from her younger sister, Edith and her mother witness the farce of the Red Cross visit to Terezin, escape the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and survive the labor camps of the Russian Front. This is a story of horror and miracles, and of triumph against all odds. ... Read more

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  • Lunch with Charlotte

    by Leon Berger ...
    When Charlotte escaped Vienna on the Kindertransport, she carried more than memories of Nazi persecution—she bore the wound of her mother's ultimate betrayal. Through twenty-five years of Friday lunches in Montreal, this remarkable Holocaust survivor finally reveals to author Leon Berger the devastating secret that shaped her entire existence. From Kristallnacht to the London Blitz to building a ... Read more

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  • Petit Claude: the Orphan of Auschwitz

    And His French Rescuers

    Translated by Ann Keay Beneduce ...
    Petit Claude, The Orphan of Auschwitz is the poignant, but also heartlifting true story of a little Jewish boy who was rescued from a Nazi prison and then sheltered in the home of a young French Christian couple. Little Claude Blum - Petit Claude, as he was called then - would never forget his fourth birthday. September 14, 1942 was engraved upon his memory, not because it was celebrated by ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD