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Man's search for meaning

Frankl's elaboration of his theory that man's primary motvational force is the search for meaning.

The boy in the striped pajamas

a fable
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

The diary of a young girl

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
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Escape

children of the Holocaust
Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates and places, these stories are factual versions of their recollections.
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Hermann G?oring

Hitler's second-in-command
2000
Chronicles the life of the powerful member of the Nazi party who was second in command to Adolf Hitler and leader of the German Air Force during World War II.

The spirit that moves us

a literature-based resource guide : teaching about the diversity, prejudice, human rights and the Holocaust
1998
Lesson plans based on children's books that touch on issues of diversity, prejudice, human rights, and the Holocaust.

Hidden

a child's story of the Holocaust
2014
Dounia shares with her granddaughter her story of childhood in Paris during the Holocaust and how she was hidden in order to save her life.

Trilog?a de la noche

la noche, el alba, el d?a / [Spanish version]
2013
Presents Elie Wiesel's first three books, including "Night," his personal Holocaust memoir; "Dawn", a novel in which the narrator, the only survivor of a family murdered at Auschwitz, meditates on the act of murder; and "Day," a novel about the spiritual and physical struggles of a man who has seen too much evil.

Schindler's list

2004
Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler risks his life and his fortune to save over one thousand Jews from extermination during World War II by employing them in his crockery factory.

Hana's suitcase

a true story
2002
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

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