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Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Revised and expanded edition.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For the most part, the history of warfare has been chronicled by the victors, dwelling on military strategies, politics, armaments, army officers, etc. This book is about the poor souls who found themselves caught in the crossfire of warring armies in their native home of Southern Italy. As was often the case, there were more ordinary people than soldiers in such perilous situations. Yet very little is known or reported about them. The purpose...
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Français
Description
Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, Alain Resnais combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
88) Fania's heart
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A tiny birthday card, crafted against all odds within the confines of Auschwitz. Based on a true story. Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother's belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? Why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before? Fania's Heart reveals the true...
91) Three came home
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
British and American families living in Borneo during World War II are packed into prison camps by the Japanese, where authoress Colbert catches the eye of the tough but cultured officer Hayakawa.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society -- back cover.
After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
Dnevnik Ivana Chisti͡akova, komandira vzvoda vooruzhennoĭ okhrany na odnom iz uchastkov BAMa, kotoryĭ on vel v GULAGe denʹ za dnem, s 1935 po 1936 god, -veroi͡atno, edinstvennyĭ doshedshiĭ do nas istochnik podobnogo roda. Ne tolʹko dnevnikov, no i kakikh-libo vospominaniĭ tekh, kto nakhodilsi͡a po ėtu storonu koli︠u︡cheĭ provoloki, izvestno ochenʹ malo, khotsi͡a v sisteme GULAGa rabotali desi͡atki tysi͡ach li︠u︡deĭ....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa,...
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