Holocaust & Other Genocide

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“She was hounded by the Gestapo, which during the war visited her very often in the palace. Officers of the secret police demanded that she bring her children back to the Third Reich.

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The House on the Canal: The Story of the House That Hid Anne Frank is an unusual picture book because the main character is the building itself.

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“Deborah Dwork has fashioned an inspiring, wide-ranging, and gripping story of brave Americans living perilously among their refugee clients in dangerous wartime Europe and China.”

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“What did it mean to be American Jew when the country seemed on the verge of implosion?”

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"A rarity in Holocaust literature, an uplifting, inspiring story of a young man taking his fate into his own hands."

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“Today, we require individuals with strength of spirit over the banality of evil, bravery over the malicious, and empathy for victims of hatred and lies.

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“When we first arrived in the United States, my father made me dictate everything I could remember about the years while we were apart.” These valuable notes form the basis for Janet Singer Applefi

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“The author keeps The Watchmaker’s Daughter a simple, unadorned story that makes the events even more horrific and universal—especially for our times.”

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"an impressive portrait . . . part adventure-war story, part inspirational tale of right winning over might."

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"a model for good history writing . . . a welcome guide to critical thinking along with a compelling story."

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Deeply engrossing and moving, this splendid biography gives us the remarkable man behind the tortured face.”

He taught us to bear witness.

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“Drawing on considerable research, the author fashions a richly detailed, highly readable account of presidential leadership in perilous times.”

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"Katin is a powerful visual storyteller, deeply honest and personal and sadly, all too relevant."

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It should be said that this is a paperback release of a book first published in 2015.

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“Were it not for the horrors visited on Germany’s European neighbors, as well as on many of its own citizens, by the Nazis, one might almost feel a twinge of sympathy for the common German.

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“Freedland enthusiastically makes his informal retelling of this story of a daring escape from a horror on an unimaginable scale a particular tale of high adventure.”

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The spirit of the title hints at the message: A British prosecutor at Nuremberg, Sir Hartley Shawcross, encouraged the judges to imagine that all of humanity stood before them, crying out, “These a

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The pogroms of Russia have long served as the backdrop to bigger stories.

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“Reading this book and using other books like it as teaching tools is critical, particularly in our current climate of racism and bigotry.

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“Snyder’s book graphically, relentlessly details the horrific murders committed by the Nazi and Soviet regimes in the vast geographic region between Germany and Russia.”

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“a brilliant book, one that lays out several gripping mysteries and reveals how the personal is very much political, all wrapped in a compelling narrative that will keep readers turning the

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Within an overall historical event are the individual stories.

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