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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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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,
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The Last Goodbye

by Edith Hofmann ...

Each of the six million men, women and children who died in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War was a human being with dreams of their own. The few who survived all had stories to tell of their desperate fight to survive, physically and mentally. Most can never forget the 'Last Goodbye' as they saw loved ones for the last time.In the summer of 1944, with the Russians advancing ... Read more

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Each of the six million men, women and children who died in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War was a human being with dreams of their own. The few who survived all had stories to tell of their desperate fight to survive, physically and mentally. Most can never forget the 'Last Goodbye' as they saw loved ones for the last time.In the summer of 1944, with the Russians advancing
... Read more
Unshed Tears

by Edith Hofmann ...

Unshed Tears, written soon after the war, relates the authors experiences of being deported to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. It has only very recently been published. Although it has been written as a novel, it details events, which were all too tragically true.Edith Hofmann is a survivor of the Holocaust, born in Prague in 1927 as Edith Birkin. In 1941, along with her parents, ... Read more

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Unshed Tears, written soon after the war, relates the authors experiences of being deported to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. It has only very recently been published. Although it has been written as a novel, it details events, which were all too tragically true.Edith Hofmann is a survivor of the Holocaust, born in Prague in 1927 as Edith Birkin. In 1941, along with her parents,
... Read more
The Last Goodbye

Holocaust Paintings and Poems by Edith Hofmann

by Edith Hofmann ...

The Last Goodbye is a book of images and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War 2 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. Dedicated to each of the six million men, women and children who died. ... Read more

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The Last Goodbye is a book of images and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War 2 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. Dedicated to each of the six million men, women and children who died.
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Haunted House Stories – The Definitive Collection

Masterful anthology spanning centuries of amazing tales about our favourite horror genre

by A C Benson, A M Burrage, Algernon Blackwood, Allen Upward, B M Croker, Bram Stoker, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Riddell, E F Benson, E T A Hoffman0, Edgar Allan Poe1, Edith Nesbit2, Edward Bulwer Lytton3, Elinor Mordaunt4, Elizabeth Gaskell5, Eric Purves6, Fitz James O'Brien7, H D Everett8, H P Lovecraft9, Hesba Stretton0, M R James1, Margaret Oliphant2, Marjorie Bowen3, Mary E Wilkins Freeman4, Oscar Wilde5, Rhoda Broughton6, Richard Harris Barham7, Rosa Mulholland8, Rudyard Kipling9, Sheridan Le Fanu0, Sheridan Le Fanu1, W F Harvey2, Walter Scott3, William Hope Hodgson4 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley5, Elliot Fitzpatrick6, William Dufris7 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

The Haunted House is a house that rules our minds with fear. Once we think a house is haunted we prove the point to ourselves again and again. Every floorboard creak or window rattle or unexplained happening is proof concrete.In this anthology our authors go to exceptional lengths to unsettle our minds and open them up to all sorts of terrors.1 - Haunted House - The Definitive Collection - An ... Read more

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The Haunted House is a house that rules our minds with fear. Once we think a house is haunted we prove the point to ourselves again and again. Every floorboard creak or window rattle or unexplained happening is proof concrete.In this anthology our authors go to exceptional lengths to unsettle our minds and open them up to all sorts of terrors.1 - Haunted House - The Definitive Collection - An
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Fifteen More Great Novellas

by Robert E. Howard, E.T.A. Hoffman, Edith Wharton, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, Henry Chapman Mercer, Various Authors ...

Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

Unabridged

23 hours 51 min

Another collection of great classic novellas by superb storytellers:"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard"The Cremona Violin" by E. T. A. Hoffman"Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton"Room Number Ten" by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor"The Screaming Skull' by F. Marion Crawford"The Wolf Book" by Henry Chapman Mercer"Absolute Evil" by Julian Hawthorne"The Legend" by Edith Wharton"The Twins" by Bessie Kyffin-Ta ... Read more

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Another collection of great classic novellas by superb storytellers:"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard"The Cremona Violin" by E. T. A. Hoffman"Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton"Room Number Ten" by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor"The Screaming Skull' by F. Marion Crawford"The Wolf Book" by Henry Chapman Mercer"Absolute Evil" by Julian Hawthorne"The Legend" by Edith Wharton"The Twins" by Bessie Kyffin-Ta
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Psychological Stories

Explore the human mind

by Amelia Edwards, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, F Anstey, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostovesky, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Liza Ross, Bill Wallis, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

11 hours 53 min

What we have in front of us here in this volume is a simple premise but an author’s words may say one thing and mean another. With talents such as E T A Hoffman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov and many others our minds are under almost permanent assault with words, characters and narratives that pursue us to the end.1 - Psychological Stories - An Introduction2 - The Dream of a ... Read more

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What we have in front of us here in this volume is a simple premise but an author’s words may say one thing and mean another. With talents such as E T A Hoffman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov and many others our minds are under almost permanent assault with words, characters and narratives that pursue us to the end.1 - Psychological Stories - An Introduction2 - The Dream of a
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Haunted House

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

by Oscar Wilde, H P Lovecraft, H P Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H D Everett, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Margaret Oliphant, Algernon Blackwood0, E T A Hoffman1, Edith Nesbit2, Edith Nesbit3, E F Benson4, D K Broster5, A C Benson6, W F Harvey7, W F Harvey8, Hesba Stretton9, Rosa Mulholland0, Sheridan Le Fanu1, Sheridan Le Fanu2, Edward Bulwer Lytton3, Eric Purves4, William Hope Hodgson5, A M Burrage6, Elizabeth Gaskell7, M R James8, Marjorie Bowen9, Catherine Crowe0, B M Croker1, Rhoda Broughton2, Elinor Mordaunt3, Allen Upward4, Richard Harris Barham5, Charlotte Riddell6, Edgar Allan Poe7 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley8, David Shaw-Parker9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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Strings

by Sheryl Criswell Sturdevant (SB) ...

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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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
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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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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The Girl in the Green Sweater

A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

by Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner ...

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

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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

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I Shall Live

Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

by Henry Orenstein ...

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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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
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