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  • Someone Made a Mistake, So I am Here Now

    The Dagmar Lieblová Story

    by Dagmar Lieblová, Marek Lauermann ...
    Translated by Rita McLeod ...
    The true story of Dagmar Lieblová, who survived the Holocaust, while the rest of her family perished. Some memories are about people seemingly unknown and obscure. You won’t find among them famous poets, musicians or politicians. These were ordinary people, of whom there are many. And yet, nobody can say that they were less important, or that they suffered, hoped and fought for their lives any ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

    A War Story

    by Diane Ackerman ...
    2008 Orion Book AwardThe New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Partisan's Memoir: Woman Of The Holocaust

    Woman of the Holocaust

    by Faye Schulman ...
    Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were soon lost in the horrors of the Holocaust. But Faye survived, and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed. Decorated for heroism by several ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Crime in the Family

    A World War II Secret Buried in Silence—and My Search for the Truth

    by Sacha Batthyany ...
    A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War IIOne night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The war was almost over and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

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  • They Were Just People

    Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust

    by Bill Tammeus, Jacques Cukierkorn ...
    Hitler’s attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more Jews than any other country at the start of World War II and location of six German-built death camps ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Witness

    One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story

    by Ruth Gruber ...
    With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.In Witness, Gruber writes about what she saw and shows us, through her haunting and ... Read more

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  • Commander of the Exodus

    by Yoram Kaniuk ...
    Translated by Seymour Simckes ...
    "The first biography of Yossi Harel . . . offers valuable insights into the Jewish struggle to create a homeland." — BooklistHailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Vow

    Rebuilding the Fachler Tribe After the Holocaust

    by Yanky Fachler ...
    "Dear Papa and Mutti! I have chosen to write my personal history in the form of a letter to you. I have been conducting a one-sided dialogue with you for some sixty years, I feel that this is an appropriate way to record my thoughts about my life both before and after we were parted." Thus begins the journal of Eli Fachler, written six decades after he caught a last glimpse of his parents as the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    by Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenberg Marx ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart — Judy Abrams in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg Marx in Czechoslovakia — are only children when they are thrown into the turmoil and terror of World War II. At seven, Judy’s mother leaves her at a convent where she must adopt a new Christian identity. Eva is first sent away at two, then again at six, in disguise and tearful. Separated from their parents, forced ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Totally Unofficial

    The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

    by Raphael Lemkin, Donna-Lee Frieze ...
    Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world’s understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word “genocide” and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • George's Kaddish for Kovno and the Six Million

    by Michael Berenbaum, Catherine Gong ...
    After interviewing a Holocaust survivor who took clandestine photographs of the Kovno Ghetto at great risk, a graduate student stumbles over a diary chronicling the same time and place during Nazi occupation. She soon discovers that photographer, George Kaddish is one of only two known Jewish photographers who recorded ghetto life, but most importantly she learns that hope and humanity still exist ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD