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Only a Bad Dream?: Childhood Memories of the Holocaust

Product Description: One of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, author Sahbra Anna Markus lived a life only those who have survived Hitler's hell can imagine. In Only a Bad Dream? she narrates the drama of her early years through her most vivid memories...read more

By Sahbra Anna Markus

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9781491721964 | Iuniverse Inc, February 27, 2014, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: One of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, author Sahbra Anna Markus lived a life only those who have survived Hitler's hell can imagine.

Paperback:

9781491721940 | Iuniverse Inc, February 27, 2014, cover price $25.95

The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust

Product Description: In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past...read more

By Karen Auerbach

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9780253009074 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 13, 2013, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust.

Vera Gran: The Accused

Product Description: The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941âsummer 1942) ...read more

By Agata Tuszynska

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9780307269126 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 26, 2013, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941âsummer 1942) .

Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust

Product Description: âPlease, Mama, I donât want to live like this,â pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaserâs older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsawâs Apel Platz. âI cannot take the indignities and brutalities...read more

By Estelle Glaser Laughlin

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9780896727670 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, November 15, 2012, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: âPlease, Mama, I donât want to live like this,â pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaserâs older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsawâs Apel Platz.

The Boy: A Holocaust Story

By Dan Porat

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Hardcover:

9780809030712 | Hill & Wang Pub, October 26, 2010, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780809030729 | Reprint edition (Hill & Wang Pub, November 8, 2011), cover price $16.00

Not All Was Lost: A Young Woman's Memoir 1939- 1946

"Not All Was Lost; a Young WomanÃ¢â¬â¢s Memoir, 1939-1946 offers the historical and psychological background for the deeper understanding of GodÃ¢â¬â¢s presence and human responsibility during the Nazi regime.God, Faith and the Holocaust; Personal Reflections, published by the author in 1997, provides additional insight for the interested reader. It postulates that the Holocaust of the European Jews should not be denied or forgotten, yet it should not weaken our faith in God. Not by our tears, not by out anger, not by our guilt Ã¢â¬â but by our constructive deeds will we redeem ourselves and honor the victims."

By Irene Bessette

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9781453547847 | Xlibris Corp, August 24, 2010, cover price $29.99

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9781453547830 | Xlibris Corp, August 24, 2010, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "Not All Was Lost; a Young WomanÃ¢â¬â¢s Memoir, 1939-1946 offers the historical and psychological background for the deeper understanding of GodÃ¢â¬â¢s presence and human responsibility during the Nazi regime.

A Ship in the Harbor: Mother and Me, Book 2

By Julian Padowicz

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9780897335980 | Chicago Review Pr, November 1, 2009, cover price $16.95

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto

Product Description: A revised edition of an extraordinary record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, first published in 1945, before the end of World War 2. Originally edited by SL Schneiderman, this edition has a new introduction by Susan Lee Pentlin.On her fifteenth birthday, as the German army tightens its grip on Warsaw, Mary Berg begins writing her diary...read more

By Susan Lee Pentlin (compiler) and S. L. Shneiderman (editor)

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9781851685851 | New edition (Oneworld Pubns Ltd, May 1, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A revised edition of an extraordinary record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, first published in 1945, before the end of World War 2.

From Siberia to America: A Story of Survival and Success

Product Description: During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime.Â From Siberia to America is a memoir of one man who survived a childhood in those Siberian work camps...read more

By Boruch B. Frusztajer

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9781589661721 | Univ of Scranton Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime.

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto

First published in 1945, within a few weeks of the 'Diary of Anne Frank', with which it was reviewed in the New York Times, this important chronicle of daily life within the Warsaw Ghetto represents the first and lengthiest eye-witness account of Jews' experiences under Nazi rule in Poland.

By Mary Berg, Sylvia Glass (trans), Norbert Guterman (trans), Susan Lee Pentlin (introduced by) and S. L. Schneiderman (editor)

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9781851684724 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, May 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of a child prisoner of the Warsaw ghetto as recorded in her diary between 1940 and 1943, describing profound levels of suffering and her eventual rescue.

For Those I Loved

'A firsthand account of the Jewish Holocaust from a man who survived a concentration camp, participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, became an officer in the Soviet Red Army, and retired to France after making a fortune in the United States'--Provided by publisher.

By Max Gallo

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9781571745279 | Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 'A firsthand account of the Jewish Holocaust from a man who survived a concentration camp, participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, became an officer in the Soviet Red Army, and retired to France after making a fortune in the United States'--Provided by publisher.

Mother and Me Escape From Warsaw

The author shares the story of his flight from Warsaw after the Nazi invasion, guided by the spoiled, self-centered mother he barely knew.

By Julian Padowicz

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9780897335447 | Chicago Review Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The author shares the story of his flight from Warsaw after the Nazi invasion, guided by the spoiled, self-centered mother he barely knew.

What Time And Sadness Spared: Mother And Son Confront the Holocaust

A Jewish retiree now living in Israel shares her personal story, including her time as a prisoner at Auschwitz and her return to the site of the concentration camp years after she was freed.

By Doron S. Ben-Atar and Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-atar

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9780813925134 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 22, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A Jewish retiree now living in Israel shares her personal story, including her time as a prisoner at Auschwitz and her return to the site of the concentration camp years after she was freed.

The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

Describes the children's advocate's efforts to protect Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw and create progressive orphanages

By Betty Jean Lifton

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9781581101843 | Amer Academy of Pediatrics, October 31, 2005, cover price $29.95

9780312155605 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the children's advocate's efforts to protect Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw and create progressive orphanages

Miscellaneous:

9781581103977 | Amer Academy of Pediatrics, February 1, 2006, cover price $23.95

A Square Of Sky: A Wartime Childhood: From Ghetto To Convent

Product Description: The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival...read more

By Janina David

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9780907871736 | Eland & Sickle Moon Books, April 15, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis.

And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Story of a Certain Loneliness

Product Description: And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs and biographies. Based on interviews with "Alex," an anonymous survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and three concentration camps, the story follows him from his assimilated childhood to his coming to terms with his memories of the Holocaust as an older man...read more

By Regina Grol (trans) and Joanna Wiszniewicz

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9780810118133 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A brutally honest memoir of adolescence in the Warsaw ghetto and coming to terms with the memories years later

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9780810118140 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs and biographies.

Between Two Worlds: The Testimony & the Testament

Three generations speak about the effect of the Holocaust on their lives--first is the moving, first person account of the author's father, Israel, a Holocaust survivor; then the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation who were raised under its shadow; finally Israel's granddaughters attest to the need to keep the memory alive. Simultaneous.

By David Mittelberg

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9781930143883 | Devora Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Three generations speak about the effect of the Holocaust on their lives--first is the moving, first person account of the author's father, Israel, a Holocaust survivor; then the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation who were raised under its shadow; finally Israel's granddaughters attest to the need to keep the memory alive.

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9781932687088 | Simcha Media Group, October 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Three generations speak about the effect of the Holocaust on their lives--first is the moving, first person account of the author's father, Israel, a Holocaust survivor; then the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation who were raised under its shadow; finally Israel's granddaughters attest to the need to keep the memory alive.

Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust

Product Description: Cultural Studies. Jewish studies. As told to Hilton Obenziger, with an introduction by Paul Auster. RUNNING THROUGH FIRE is the story of Zosia Goldberg and her incredible survival during the time of the Holocaust. Her story features resistance at every turn, narrow escapes, and help from the most unlikely sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Auster (introduced by), Zosia Goldberg and Hilton Obenzinger

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9781562791285 | Mercury House, April 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cultural Studies.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

A long-suppressed and moving true testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music recounts the World War II experiences of a professional Warsaw pianist who, though losing his family, survives the Holocaust in hiding. Reissue. (A new film, directed by Roman Polanski, winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, starring Adrien Brody) (History)

By Wladyslaw Szpilman

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9780312244156 | Picador USA, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A stirring long-suppressed memoir about a pianist's incredible survival in Warsaw during World War II discusses the terrible deaths of family members and shows how he was saved by a German officer who had heard him playing the piano.

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9780312311353 | 2 reissue edition (Picador USA, January 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Narrates the struggle of Wladyslaw Spzilman, a Warsaw Jewish pianist, to survive the deaths of his family and time spent in a prison labor camp, before being rescued by a German officer who had heard him play a live radio broadcast.

9780312263768 | Picador USA, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A long-suppressed and moving true testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music recounts the World War II experiences of a professional Warsaw pianist who, though losing his family, survives the Holocaust in hiding.

A Square of Sky: Memoirs of a Wartime Childhood

By Janina David

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9780907871170 | Eland & Sickle Moon Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis.

Sol's Story a Triumph of the Human Spirit: A Triumph of the Human Spirit

Product Description: Holocaust survivor, Sol Rosenberg, relates his inspiring story through his good friend Richard Chardkoff. From his stable family life in Warsaw to the atrocities of the Third Reich, Sol is transfered from camp to camp. This is his testament of survival and triumph.

By Richard Chardkoff

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9781583850060 | Four Winds Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Holocaust survivor, Sol Rosenberg, relates his inspiring story through his good friend Richard Chardkoff.

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

The award-winning author writes of his boyhood in Warsaw, between 1908 and 1918, recounting tales of his family and neighbors and of Warsaw's aroma-laden, crowded Krochmalna Street, where foolishness and thievery mixed with wisdom and wonder (view table of contents)

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9780374416966 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, May 1, 1986), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Reinforced:

9780606221979 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Prebinding:

9780833512574 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Here There Is No Why

Product Description: Here There is No Why was the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele's answer to Roma, Hela and millions of Jews who were trapped by the Nazis. Written to fulfill a promise made in the darkest moment in human history, this simple and eloquent story is unique, spanning the geography of the Holocaust...read more

By Rachel Chencinski Roth and Ram Roth

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9789655550337 | Rachel Chencinski Roth, February 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Here There is No Why was the infamous Dr.

Remembering a Vanished World: A Jewish Childhod in Interwar Poland

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By Theodore S. Hamerow

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9781571812810 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $90.00

Paperback:

9781571817198 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

Emmanuel Ringelblum: Historian of the Warsaw Ghetto

Profiles the life of Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who began documenting Nazi war crimes and later buried the archives before he was executed. (view table of contents)

By Mark Beyer

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9780823933754 | Rosen Pub Group, June 1, 2001, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: Profiles the life of Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who began documenting Nazi war crimes and later buried the archives before he was executed.

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