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  • The Ghetto Swinger

    A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers

    by Coco Schumann, Michael H. Kater ...
    Translated by John Howard ...
    Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz."Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it," said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during a break between sessions. Recalling this episode Schumann reminds readers that even in the midst of real-world nightmares, music is ... Read more

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    The True Story of one Woman's Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

    by Jeremy JOSEPHS ...
    Born in Germany in 1936, three year old Susi Bechhofer and her twin sister Lotte were among thousands of children evacuated on the now famous Kindertransport as the country fell into the cruel grip of Nazism. Adopted by the Manns, a childless Welsh Baptist minister and his wife on their arrival in Britain, the two girls were given a new identity in an attempt to erase all traces of their previous ... Read more

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  • Escaping Hitler

    A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future

    by Phyllida Scrivens ...
    The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust-and lived happily ever after.Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939, Günter boarded a bus to the border of Luxembourg, illegally ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Read more

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  • The Children of Willesden Lane

    Beyond the Kindertransport

    by Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen ...
    Mona Golabek describes the inspirational true story of her mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport.Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life changes irreversibly. Although he has three daughters, Lisa's father is only able to secure one berth on the Kindertransport. The family ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Gift

    The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime

    by Jean Medawar, David Pyke ...
    Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. With Hitler's rise to power and the introduction of racial laws, starting with the exclusion of all Jews from state institutions, Jewish professors were forced to leave their jobs, which closed the door on Germany’s fifty-year record of world supremacy in science. Of these more than 1,500 refugees, fifteen went on to ... Read more

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  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diary of a Young Girl with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which was written while Anne was confined to a series of hidden rooms in a warehouse in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Along with her mother, father, older sister Margot and four other Jews, Anne ... Read more

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  • The Diary of Mary Berg

    Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition

    by Mary Berg ...
    The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout.This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the ... Read more

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  • Travelers in the Third Reich

    by Julia Boyd ...
    Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a ... Read more

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  • Auschwitz Report

    by Primo Levi, Leonardo De Benedetti ...
    Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.Dating from the weeks and months immediately ... Read more

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  • Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945

    Beyond the Limits of Solidarity

    by Ewa Kurek ...
    The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From ... Read more

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