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Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 2
Language
English
Description
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create amagic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it....
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Language
English
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1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...
5) Mischling
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Language
English
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Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.
Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.
As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's...
Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.
As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
This whimsical, autobiographical novel recounts Cummings' unjust incarceration at the hands of the French during World War I. Though a conscientious objector, Cummings nevertheless volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, leading to a comedy of errors that resulted in him being accused of treason and thrown into a French concentration camp in Normandy.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive. Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the SS, she uses her position to save as many lives as she can, smuggling scraps of bread to those desperate with hunger. Edward, inmate 531, is a camp veteran and a political prisoner. Though he looks like everyone else, with a shaved head and striped uniform, he's a fighter in the underground...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Alex Ehren es poeta y maestro en el bloque número 31 de Auschwitz-Birkenau, el bloque infantil. Pasó sus días intentando sobrevivir mientras de manera ilegal daba clases a los niños, tratando de blindarlos lo mejor que podía de la horrible realidad que se vivía en el campo. Pero intentar dar lecciones a los niños no fue la única actividad ilícita en la que Alex estuvo involucrado. Alex guardaba un diario. Esta magistral novela autobiográfica...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family--sealing her fate in a way she never could...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Every day he stood exactly where he was directed. He listened for his number, shouted his answer in the freezing cold. He was ragged and he was starving, but he was alive. He was one of the fortunate ones whom fate had left standing. And he needed to stay that way. For Hannah... Berlin, 1941. Felix Thalberg, a printer's apprentice, has the weight of the world on his shoulders. His beloved city is changing under Nazi rule and at home things are no...
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