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“martin doerry”

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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

    $14.39 USD

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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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.69 USD

  • Bitter Freedom: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor

    by Jafa Wallach ...
    Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed to dig a shallow hole in the ground beneaththe cellar of an heroic Polish mechanic's shop. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Am a Star

    Child of the Holocaust

    by Inge Auerbacher ...
    The Nazis tried to destroy Inge's life--but they could not break her spirit.Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents were sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years

    Growing Up in the Holocaust

    by Livia Bitton-Jackson ...
    A Holocaust survivor recalls the terrible upheaval her family faced under Nazi occupation in this remarkable memoir that presents a story of cruelty and suffering, but also of hope, faith, perseverance, and love.What is death all about? What is life all about?So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From Holocaust to Innovation

    by David Klayman ...
    Biography of Holocaust survivor who lost all his family. He recovered and became a productive industrialist.The story starts at childhood in Poland. The horrible World-War II events terminated at Auschwitz concentration camp. The escape from the camp shortly before the end of the war. Building a new life and family in Israel as a new immigrant. Establishing 'Klayman Meteor' factory that developed ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gertruda's Oath

    A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

    by Ram Oren ...
    Translated by Barbara Harshav ...
    Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

    A powerful true story of love and survival

    by Horace Greasley ...
    An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, f****or readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz**.**Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times Bestseller - over 60,000 copies sold.Even in the most horrifying places on earth, hope still lingers in the darkness, waiting for the opp... ... Read more

    $5.39 USD