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Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” art that ultimately launched a program to eliminate the people he deemed degenerate—the residents of German psychiatric institutions who were gassed in a test run for the Final Solution.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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n this edge-of-your-seat story of narrow escapes, forged passports, ingenuity, bravery and luck, a beloved British journalist, drawing on personal testimony, letters, diaries and years of historical research, chronicles his family’s World War II history of resistance that spans Europe and brings to life the near-miraculous stories of his parents’ survival.
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English
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The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.
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"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
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Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from engaging country girl to “The Beast” of Auschwitz.
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a courageous plan to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit. One by one countries fell to the...
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eBookPro Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy. Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it. If you want to survive, you have to get to Block 66. The Germans are cruel and determined – but they...
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