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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
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ISBN-10: 1414325460
ISBN-13: 9781414325460
Published: 2009-04-01
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Author: Krystyna Chiger
ISBN-10: 1250018986
ISBN-13: 9781250018984
Published: 2012-02-21
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. Originally published as The Girl in the Green Sweater, In Darkness is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.In Darkness is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, In Darkness is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN-10: 0312425848
ISBN-13: 9780312425845
Published: 2006-04-18
Publisher: Picador
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown---from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster---and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Comprised of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.
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Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
Author: David Stahel
ISBN-10: 110701459X
ISBN-13: 9781107014596
Published: 2012-01-09
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. For the first time, David Stahel charts the battle's dramatic course and aftermath, uncovering the irreplaceable losses suffered by Germany's 'panzer groups' despite their battlefield gains, and the implications of these losses for the German war effort. He illuminates the inner workings of the German army as well as the experiences of ordinary soldiers, showing that with the Russian winter looming and Soviet resistance still unbroken, victory came at huge cost and confirmed the turning point in Germany's war in the East.
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Pan Michael: An Historical Novel Of Poland, The Ukraine, And Turkey (1893)
Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
ISBN-10: 116495184X
ISBN-13: 9781164951841
Published: 2010-09-10
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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Alicia
Author: Alicia Appleman-Jurman
ISBN-10: 0553282182
ISBN-13: 9780553282184
Published: 1989-12-01
Publisher: Bantam
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After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality. HC: Bantam.
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN-10: 0060542993
ISBN-13: 9780060542993
Published: 2007-08-21
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.
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Borderland: A Journey Through The History Of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid
ISBN-10: 0813336740
ISBN-13: 9780813336749
Published: 1999-07-01
Publisher: Basic Books
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Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tatars. Again and again, borderland turned into battlefield: during the Cossack risings of the seventeenth century, Russia’s wars with Sweden in the eighteenth, the Civil War of 1918–1920, and under Nazi occupation. Ukraine finally won independence in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bigger than France and a populous as Britain, it has the potential to become one of the most powerful states in Europe.In this finely written and penetrating book, Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine’s tragic past. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalin’s famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv to the coal mines of the Russian-speaking Donbass, from the Galician shtetlech to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraine’s struggle to build itself a national identity, and identity that faces up to a bloody past, and embraces all the peoples within its borders.
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
Author: Miron Dolot
ISBN-10: 0393304167
ISBN-13: 9780393304169
Published: 1987-06-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.
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TRIAL OF GOD (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod : a Play in Three Acts)
Author: Elie Wiesel
ISBN-10: 0805208097
ISBN-13: 9780805208092
Published: 1986-05-12
Publisher: Schocken
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Set in a medieval European village where three itinerant Jewish actors put God on trial to answer for His silence during a pogrom, a powerful drama considers historical and especially post-Holocaust issues surrounding faith. Reprint.
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