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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
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Include books by the same authorThe Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen · 288 pages
World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal and Nazi Terror
Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts · 317 pages
GI Brides
Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi · 361 pages
"Worn down by years of war and hardship, girls like Sylvia, Margaret, and Gwendolyn were thrilled when American GI's arrived in Britain with their exotic accents, handsome uniforms and aura of Hollywood glamor. Others, like Rae, who distrusted the Yanks, were eventually won over by their easy charm. So when VE Day finally came, for the 70,000 women who'd become GI brides, it was tinged with sadnes
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of Japanese Internment
Kimi Cunningham Grant · 288 pages
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto · 444 pages
"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America. After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fuk
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Leslie Maitland · 494 pages
Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalists vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughters pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memo
Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered
Trudi Kanter · 257 pages
"Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is about to end. Trudiand Walter are Jewish, and as Hitler's tanks roll into Austria, Trudi immediately realises they have to flee. [This book] is [a ...] true story that moves from Vienna to Prague to b
The House on Garibaldi Street,
Isser Harel · 289 pages
Adolph Eichmann was found by the Israeli Security Services: he was one of the greatest Nazi criminals together with the Nazi leaders, for what they called "The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem."
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands · 444 pages
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank
Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent · 224 pages
In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed and arrested in 1944. Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz - the same age as her friend Anne Frank. Together with her mother she endured the daily degradation that robbed so many of their lives
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
Gitta Sereny · 757 pages
Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obta
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Robert Gerwarth · 364 pages
"Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff · 460 pages
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing g
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II
Peter Grose · 352 pages
This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that consp
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb · 408 pages
Written using archival research and interviews with those involved, this is the story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts: the global hunt and capture, in 1960, of Adolf Eichmann, operational manager of the gas-chamber genocides.
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe · 508 pages
Born Survivors
Wendy Holden · 385 pages
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have
The Third Reich
Michael Burleigh · 965 pages
"The Third Reich: A New History restores a broader perspective and intellectual unity to the many subjects that have become academic sub-specialities. It offers a radical re-examination of the Third Reich from its incubation in the hopelessness which followed the German defeat in 1918 to the Nazi regime's final destructive spiral and the aftershocks of de-Nazification."--BOOK JACKET.
The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski · 416 pages
"Describes the small group of men and women who sought out former Nazis all over the world after the Nuremberg trials, refusing to let their crimes be forgotten or allowing them to quietly live inconspicuous, normal lives."--NoveList.
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold · 252 pages
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refuge
The Gestapo: History of Horror
Jacques Delarue · 384 pages
My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders-An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
Norbert Lebert, Stephan Lebert · 243 pages
"In 1959 the German journalist Norbert Lebert conducted extensive interviews with the sons and daughters of prominent Nazis: Hess, Bormann, Goring, and Himmler; Baldur von Schirach, creator of the Hitler Youth; and Hans Frank, governor of Poland. Then at the beginning of their adult lives, Lebert's subjects were the bearers of notorious names that made them outcasts to some, symbols of a lost glor