1933-1945

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1933-1945

The road to World War II

A 16-part series that examines the events between the end of World war I in 1918 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 through newsreels, soundtracks, and archival footage.

Kristallnacht and living in Nazi Germany

Describes how the strong dislike of Jews that existed in Europe since social Darwinism became popular in the 1870's led eventually to Kristallnacht or "Night of broken glass" in 1938 when Jews throughout Germany and Austria were subjected to brutality and thousands of horrors in a single night.

The passenger

a novel
2021
"Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany"--Provided by publisher.

Saving Hanno

2019
Nine-year-old Rudi and his beloved daschhund, Hanno, face peril as they are being sent from Nazi Germany to England on the special trains called Kindertransports during World War II. Includes historical note.

Max

Born in Nazi Germany in 1936, Max is raised as the perfect Aryan but questions his teachings upon learning that his friend Lukas, a Polish boy snatched from his home to be "Germanized," is secretly Jewish.

La ladrona de libros

2017
Nine-year-old Liesel Meminger is sent to live with foster parents when her brother dies and her parents disappear and throughout the 1930s and 1940s, her book-stealing and story-telling help sustain her and the Jewish man they are hiding.

The librarian of Auschwitz

2017
Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

The librarian of Auschwitz

2021
Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

The other half of life

a novel based on the true story of the MS St. Louis
Fifteen-year-old Thomas sets sail on a German ship bound for Cuba in 1939 along with more than nine hundred German Jews expecting to be granted safe haven on the island, but he discovers that although the passengers have landing permits, they may not be allowed to enter the country.
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The book thief

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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