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41) Shoah, Volume 1
Series
Criterion collection volume 663
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Full screen; Director-approved six-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (60 pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
Author
Series
Ave fénix. Debolsillo volume 166
Publisher
Plaza & Janš
Pub. Date
2001, c1993
Edition
2. ed.
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents pages from the original diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a young Jewish girl who recounts her experiences in a Jewish ghetto and a concentration camp in Poland during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Among the Righteous recounts Robert Satloff's eight-year effort to provide a hopeful response to the problems of Holocaust ignorance and denial in the Arab world by asking a question no one had ever before posed: Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust?"--http://www.pbs.org/newshour/among-the-righteous/about.html
Author
Publisher
Putnam Puffin
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
xiii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidde n from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland, during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Among Holocaust survivor stories, Eva Kor's experience as a 10-year-old guinea pig of Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz is exceptional. It is the story of a child facing extraordinary evil and cruelty. Eva Kor has been the subject of a documentary,"Forgiving Dr. Mengele," and other media coverage.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights.
"Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
xi, 176 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told.
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