poland

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poland

In my hands

memories of a Holocaust rescuer
1999
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Marie Curie

2008
Examines how Marie Curie overcame major obstacles, discovered radium, and became one of history's greatest scientists.

Marie Curie

mother of modern physics
2009
A biography of Marie Curie, whose discovery of radium changed science and the world, and describes her childhood, education, and the hardships she faced in her professional life.

Rutka's notebook

a voice from the Holocaust
2008
Presents the diary of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl who wrote about what she witnessed in the months before she perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Return to Auschwitz

the remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust
1982
Twelve at the outbreak of World War II, the author recounts her struggle to survive in Auschwitz.

Nicholas Copernicus and the founding of modern astronomy

2004
Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Polish astronomer.

Memories of survival

2005
Presents a collection of embroidered panels depicting the childhood memories of the author's mother and her survival of the Holocaust in Poland during World War Two.

Marie Curie

1994
Tells the life story of Marie Curie, discoverer of radium and winner of the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.

Shoah

an oral history of the Holocaust : the complete text of the film
1985
On t.p.: The complete text of the film. Presents an oral history of the Holocaust.

Auschwitz

a new history
2005
Presents over one hundred interviews from Auschwitz survivors and their Nazi captors that reveal first-hand accounts of the inner workings of the infamous death camp, their techniques of mass murder, and the decisions by Nazi leaders to use Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of European Jews.

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