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“nava shean”

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  • To Be an Actress

    by Nava Shean ...
    Translated by Michelle Fram Cohen ...
    In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from children's theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israel's national theater, Munich State theater, and her one-woman shows. The common theme that runs through the memoir is Ms. Shean's passion for the theater and her dedication to acting ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    Series Book 3 - Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers
    Hana's Suitcase, the acclaimed children's book read by thousands of children around the world - In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner - Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind (the German word for orphan). Children visiting the center ... Read more

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  • Inside the Gas Chambers

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    by Shlomo Venezia ...
    This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first ... Read more

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  • The Dentist of Auschwitz

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    by Benjamin Jacobs ...
    " In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau; spent a year and a half in Auschwitz, where he was forced to remove gold teeth from corpses; ... Read more

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  • Ilse Koch: Bitch of Buchenwald

    by Vixen Valdez ...
    Ilse Koch was the buxom she-sadist who ruled Buchenwald concentration camp with an iron fist of torture, sexual depravity and atrocity. The most infamous of her crimes was making lampshades and other ornaments from the human skin she flayed from her dead victims. This special short ebook in the new “Careers Of Evil†series examines her life, crimes, and eventual punishment in vivid detail, ... Read more

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  • Guilt About the Past

    by Bernhard Schlink ...
    The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt as a German experience as well as a global one. International bestselling author Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lessons of history to motivate individual moral behaviour, how to reconcile a ... Read more

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  • Balkan Genocides

    Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Mojzes ...
    Series series Studies in Genocide: Religion, History, and Human Rights
    During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context and debunking the common misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the genocides themselves.A ... Read more

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  • A Chosen Few

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    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORNIN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, ... Read more

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  • The Last Of The Sonderkommando

    by Mark Stephens ...
    An uncompromising account of the bloody persecution of the Jews, and others, in the Ukraine and the terrors of the Nazi death camps will shock and horrify many readers. All the events are as told by one of the survivors, Carl the main character in the book (although that was not his real name). The horror is real, the story is real, and it is as accurate as he, an old man when he related it in ... Read more

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    Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps were notorious places of torture for both Jewish and Allied prisoners. My e-book considers the testimony of survivors. They graphically depict the atrocious scenes they witnessed and describe the daily lives they endured.After being transferred from Auschwitz Josef Kramer served as commandant at Belsen. A ruthless tyrant he was known as "the Beast of Belsen ... Read more

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  • When Memory Comes

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    by Saul Friedländer ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    The “classic of Holocaust literature” about childhood and family, faith and identity—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and featuring an introduction by Claire Messud (The Guardian).Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, 7-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Holocaust as Culture

    by Imre Kertész ...
    Translated by Thomas Cooper ...
    Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the personal and the historical.In The Holocaust as Culture,Kertész recalls his ... Read more

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