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English
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The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism.
Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last...
Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last...
Publisher
Synedoche Le Pacte Dor Film Les Films Aleph ; France 3 Cinema
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
9) Holocaust
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"During World War Two, in the prison camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling. Over time, fewer and fewer children were left to care for the little tree, but those who remained kept lovingly sharing their water with it. When the war finally ended and the prisoners were rescued, the sapling had grown into a strong five-foot-tall maple. Nearly eight years later the tree's six hundred descendants...
12) Clara's war
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the horror of Terezin, a ghetto built by the Nazis to show how well they treated Jews, Clara manages to make some friends who help her.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.
Publisher
Terra Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A loving mother writes a farewell letter to her son just days before she dies in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Fifty years later, the letter mysteriously reaches her son. It is a letter of hope that could inspire everyone it touched.
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