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Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom.
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,...
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Jewish Lights Publishing, a division of LongHill Partners, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors--theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities--from sixteen countries on six continents reflect on how the memories transmitted to them have affected their lives.--Provided by publisher
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son, in a volume that includes a facsimile of Breakdowns, the artist's comics from the 1970s.
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Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo...
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SWP She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Our family legacies, both positive and negative, are passed down from one generation to the next in ways that are not fully understood. This secondary form of trauma, which Dr. Gita Baack calls "Inherited Trauma," has not received adequate attention--a failing that perpetuates cycles of pain, hatred, and sometimes violence. In The Inheritors, readers are given the opportunity to reflect on the inherited burdens they carry, as well as the resilience...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" explores the comics form--and how it has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In a world where Jews are mice, Germans are Cats and the Polish are pigs, a son documents his parents' experience during the Holocaust and his relationship with his father.
"On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history"...
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Imagine and Wonder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of...
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