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21) Podróz Cilki
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Polish
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"Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where...
23) Trzy siostry
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Polish
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Autorka międzynarodowych bestsellerów Heather Morris opisuje zapierające dech w piersi zakończenie trylogii zapoczątkowanej Tatuażystą z Auschwitz. Kiedy są dziewczynkami, Cibi, Magda i Livi obiecują ojcu, że zostaną razem bez względu na wszystko. Wiele lat później, gdy trwa wojna, naziści wywożą szesnastoletnią Livi do Auschwitz. Jej starsza siostra Cibi wyrusza za nią - zamierza ją ochronić lub umrzeć przy niej. Magda ukrywa...
28) Medaliony
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Polish
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Medallions includes seven short stories and one summation, "The Adults and Children of Auschwitz." These terse, sometimes fragmented pieces take the form of testimonials, private interviews, and chance conversations in which the protagonists, speaking for themselves, with their sometimes limited understanding of the human drama, also speak on behalf of millions. More than mere historical record, Medallions offers the reader startling immediacy--the...
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Verba Mundi volume 30
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English
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"The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary follows Morel, a Frenchman who survives the Holocaust - a survival he credits to imagining elephants roaming the wilderness. Once free, he travels to French Equatorial Africa with the aim of saving his beloved elephants from being hunted and killed for meat and ivory. Realizing his more conventional tactics are not eliciting a response, however, he turns militant, and the story takes a dark turn. This novel examines...
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"The trumpets of Jericho is the first book, and only novel, devoted in its entirety to one of the more remarkable episodes in the annals of Jewish resistance to the Nazis--the defiant 1944 uprising at the SS death camp Auschwitz--and the just as inspiring account of the four young female conspirators arrested and savagely tortured by the Gestapo during the investigation that followed. As one of architects of the rebellion, Roza Robota, arguably the...
31) Ocalić jednego
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Polish
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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...
32) The rabbit girls
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English
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"Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk's secret history begins to unravel.Searching for more clues of her father's past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women's camp concealed among her mother's things. Within its seams are dozens of letters...
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