holocaust survivors

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Twilight

1988
Translation of: Le crepuscule, au loin. Raphael Lipkin's fruitless search for Pedro, decades after the war, brings him to a clinic where he encounters men whose delusions spring from the Bible.

Hello, America

2005
The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world.".

Promises to keep

1993
This Holocaust survivor tells what happened in the camps and details his life after escaping from the Nazis and making his way to the United States.

My bridges of hope

searching for life and love after Auschwitz
2002
In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

A wolf in the attic

the legacy of a hidden child of the Holocaust
2002
The author shares what she remembers as a very young Jewish child posing with her mother as Christians during the Holocaust in Poland, and discusses the impact of her early experiences on her later life.

An uncommon friendship

from opposite sides of the Holocaust
2001
Recounts the childhoods of two men who were adolescents during the Second World War and became friends as adults in California: Frederic Tubach, a German, and Bernat Rosner, a Hungarian Jew whose family was murdered at Auschwitz.

Elie Wiesel

surviving the Holocaust, speaking out against genocide
2005
Presents a biography of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and describes how he and his family were forced from their town in Romania and brought to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the death of his father, and how he was able to survive.

The forgotten

1995
A Holocaust survivor who is suffering from an incurable disease, recounts his concentration camp experiences to his son who feels compelled to travel to his father's native land in search of truth and meaning.

One yellow daffodil

a Hanukkah story
1999
During Hanukkah two children help a Holocaust survivor to once again embrace his religious traditions.

We are on our own

a memoir
2006
A graphic novel in which the author depicts how she and her mother escaped Nazi persecution by faking their deaths and fleeing Budapest for the countryside after the Nazis occupied the city.

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