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Joshua Greene
Author
Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and...
Author
Publisher
Mandala Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a seventy-year-old man set sail from India to America with a few books in his bag, pennies in his pockets, and a message of love in his heart. He landed in New York at the peak of the revolutionary counterculture movement of the '60s, and went on to spark a global spiritual renaissance that led to the creation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Through the depiction of Prabhupada as both an enlightened luminary and a...
Publisher
Stories to Remember
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Memory after Belsen is a feature-length documentary that explores the lives and memories of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. The film investigates the changes occurring within and the many dimensions of Holocaust memory through the generations. Memory after Belsen weaves together a visual tapestry of people whose family histories position them as stewards of Holocaust remembrance"--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Memory After Belsen explores the lives and memories of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. The film investigates the changes occurring with and the many dimensions of Holocaust memory through the generations, weaving together a visual tapestry of people whose family histories position them as stewards of Holocaust remembrance.
Hitler's Courts examines the perversion of laws and the courts under Nazi rule and...
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Cara and her grandfather embark on a journey of imagination that brings them face to face with the wonderful variety of people around the world. Emphasizes the differences among the four billion people on earth. Includes the music video by Peabo Bryson and Lea Salonga entitled "How wonderful we are" from the Lightyear Entertainment soundtrack.
