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Resistance

In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.

Treblinka

1967

Killing the SS

the hunt for the worst war criminals in history
2018
"As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals, including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann, went on the run. But self-styled 'Nazi hunters' were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a deth camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring SS fugitives to justice"--Back cover.

Citizen 865

the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America
2019
The story of a team of Nazi hunters at the United States Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War II.

The daughter's tale

a novel
"BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband's has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. NEW YORK, 2015. Eighty-year-old Elise Duval receives a call from a woman bearing messages from a time and country that she forced herself to forget. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise is shocked to discover that the letters were from her mother, written in German during the war. Despite Elise's best efforts to stave off her past, seven decades of secrets begin to unravel"--Provided by publisher.
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Branded by the pink triangle

Describes how homosexuals were treated during the Holocaust.

Life in a Nazi concentration camp

Examines life in a Nazi concentration camp, focusing on deportation and arrivals, housing, food, and other living conditions, forced labor and other inmate and other inmate exploitation and other topics.

The Nanjing Massacre

2018
"While World War II is well known for genocide, the war itself eclipsed key events that preceded and contributed to the greater conflict ... explores the Nanjing massacre, a mass murder and rape committed by Japanese soldiers in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict would later merge into World War II itself."--Provided by publisher.
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The other victims

first-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis
Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

Apt pupil

"Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past ... a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception--and horror--as finally there is only one left standing."--Amazon.com.

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