holocaust survivors

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Sophie's choice

1982
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

Postal indiscretions

the correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski
2007

Twilight

a novel
1995
Raphael Lipkin, a professor at New York's Mountain Clinic psychiatric hospital, struggles to hide his own mental delusions and demons from his fellow staff.

Gratitude

2009
Lili Bandel, having escaped the evacuation of her village by the Nazis, makes her way to Budapest in 1944 where she is taken in by the Becks, a wealthy Jewish family, whose nephew, Paul, a disbarred young lawyer, goes to great lengths to protect his loved ones, including his brother Istvan, a dentist in a nearby city who takes refuge with his assistant.

No time for patience

my road from Kaunas to Jerusalem : a memoir of a Holocaust survivor
1999
Holocaust survivor Zev Birger provides an account of his experiences first in the ghetto in Slobidka, and then as a laborer at the Dauchau/Kaufering concentration camp.

To life

2000
A Holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America.

Liberating the ghosts

photographs and text from The march of the living with excerpts from the writings of participants
1996
A photographic documentary of the "March of the Living, " a pilgrimage of five thousand young people from forty countries who met in Poland on April 4, 1994, and spent two weeks visiting the sites of the Holocaust.

The passersby

1993
As a teenage Jewish girl struggles with anorexia, her decisions about whether or not to live affect those close to her and are influenced by survivors of the Holocaust.

Impact of the Holocaust

2004
Discusses the effects and legacy of the Holocaust, including the experiences of survivors, the urgency to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the need for a worldwide human rights policy, and the need to examine the terrible cost of racism and hatred.

Hope

a tragedy : a novel
2012
Solomon Kugel has moved to Stockton, New York, to find a quiet life but farms similar to his new home are being burned and he finds an elderly Anne Frank hiding in his attic.

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