1939 - 1945

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1939 - 1945

An American college girl in Hitler's Germany

a memoir
1999
To recall that "Hitler gave me a job when I was out of work" (rather than that "Hitler genocidally murdered 6 million Jews") seems a perverse falsification of history. This memoir of the 1930s is just such a falsification and, for this very reason, is naively truthful.

Maximilian Kolbe

Saint of Auschwitz
1997
A biography of the Polish friar canonized in 1982, who founded the Militia of the Immaculate, wrote numerous periodicals and newspapers, and while imprisoned in Auschwitz, sacrificed his life for another man.

The shadow of his wings

translated by Benedict Leutenegger
2000
The astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came about will astound the reader.

The Second World War

a narrative history
1999
The background to the war - the national aims and strengths of the participating nations. From the declaration of war to the end in the Far East - six years of worldwide struggle explained campaign by campaign.

Two families

1997
The family of a brave teenager named Malka Csizmadia (Robin Tunney) reach out to a Jewish refugee (Michael Rapaport), helping him and others escape from the prison camp behind their home. In "We are Circus," husband-and-wife circus owners (Tim Matheson, Daryl Hannah), risk losing their business - and their lives - by hiding a Jewish family in their travelling circus.

Two women

1997
Elizabeth Perkins and Sela Ward star in this powerful portrayal of two courageous women who risk their lives to help Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. In "Mamusha," Gertruda Babilinska (Perkins) is a nanny who keeps a friend's young son and a group of Jewish prisoners alive until the war ends...Marie-Rose Gineste (Ward) is a "Woman On a Bicycle" in the south of France who is enlisted by the local bishop to help hide refugees and falsify their documents.

Two couples

1998
Studies individual acts of courage by people living in Nazi occupied lands during the Second World War. The first story tells of a newlywed couple who live in a constant state of danger after turning their country house into a hideaway for fleeing Jewish refugees. The second story tells of Madame Hamilton and her husband who give young Jewish boys a new lease on life by hiding them at their Catholic school for children of prisoners of war.

The bridge on the River Kwai

1957
When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure.

Hanged on a twisted cross

the life, convictions, and martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1996
What is the responsibility of a follower of God when others are being persecuted and sent to prison camps and gas chambers?.

The hidden child

2006
Of the 1,600,000 Jewish children who lived in Europe before World War II, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden children shuttered away in attics, cellars, convents or in villages or farms. Maud Dahme, former president of the New Jersey Board of Education, was among those who were hidden and survived.

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