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"Hugh O'Flaherty lived an extraordinary life, serving God as a priest by saving thousands of lives. He was nicknamed 'the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican.'"--

Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend Truus smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it's hard to know who to trust.

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful novel in verse for 9-12 year olds based on American history presents the perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to finish high school and become a nurse as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who's processing the war as he works on Claire's family farm.

Historische Porträts ergründen die deutsche Filmgeschichte von Metropolis (1927) bis Goodbye Lenin (2003).Als historische Quellen weisen Filme auf die Vielgestalt der deutschen Geschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts hin. Sie machen kollektive Vorstellungen sichtbar, transferieren also Wahrnehmungen und Denkweisen in ein audiovisuelles Medium. Andererseits verschieben sie permanent das, was sie aufnehmen und darstellen. Sie unterhalten, sie irritieren aber auch und provozieren.Dass Filme nicht allein den Zeitgeist spiegeln, zeigen namhafte Historikerinnen und Historiker in 38 kurzen Analysen bekannter deutscher Filme des 20. Jahrhunderts von »Sissi« bis zu »Der Schuh des Manitu«, von »Der geteilte Himmel« bis zu »Das weiße Band«. Geprägt durch ihre sozialen, kulturellen Hintergründe beeinflussen Filme das Verständnis von Staatlichkeit genauso wie von Familie, von wirtschaftlichem Handeln, von Geschlechterverhältnissen, von Sexualität und davon, was Stadt und was Land ist. Das Buch wendet sich bewusst an ein breites, geschichts- und filminteressiertes Publikum und macht deutlich, welches Potenzial historische Filmanalysen für die Zeitgeschichte besitzen.

"A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an American-especially a first-generation American." -Roz Chast This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author's experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her.It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves-but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young life into the tumultuous, liberating 1960s, this heartfelt, unexpectedly humorous, and meticulously illustrated graphic-novel memoir explores the childhood burdens of memory and guilt, and Marisabina's struggle and success in forming an identity entirely her own.

From the poorest neighborhoods in Kenya to the halls of the Canadian Supreme Court, the Jewish women found in these pages have accomplished remarkable feats. Some survived the horrors of the Holocaust while others had more peaceful childhoods, but all of them saw unfairness in their world and decided to do something about it.

Irena Sendler was a humanitarian and social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Her job allowed her to pass through the armed gates of the Warsaw ghetto, bringing limited aid to the 450,000 Jewish people who were forcibly moved there. In secret, Irena built a network of people to smuggle 2,500 children out of the ghetto, saving their lives. And in a hidden jar, she kept their family names. This is her story.

"Originally published in 2012 by the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University."--Tile page verso.

From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust-one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely.Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won't stop until he reveals the truth to the world-and that each day that passes means more lives are lost.Lives like Rudi's schoolmate Gerta Sidonová. Gerta's family fled from Slovakia to Hungary, where they live under assumed names to hide their Jewish identity. But Hungary is beginning to cave under pressure from German Nazis. Her chances of survival become slimmer by the day.The clock is ticking. As Gerta inches closer to capture, Rudi and his friend Alfred Wetzler begin their crucial steps towards an impossible escape.This is the true story of one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, and how his death-defying escape helped save over 100,000 lives.

A sensitively written and illustrated story about a young Jewish boy growing up in the horrors of World War II.

Packender Thriller im Herzen des Dritten Reichs! Ein junger Soldat und ein jüdischer Journalist im Sog von Macht, Geheimnissen und den düsteren Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Reichshauptstadt Berlin, im Januar 1940: Hitlers Überfall auf Polen ist erst wenige Wochen her, als Spezialisten der SS in einer Synagoge nahe Warschau eine geheimnisvolle Entdeckung machen. Ihr Fund ruft das Reichssicherheitshauptamt auf den Plan, denn man ist sich sicher, dass die bisher erfolglosen Verhandlungen mit dem Vatikan durch diese Entdeckung wieder Fahrt aufnehmen. In Berlin keimt die Hoffnung, dass Papst Pius XII. endlich seine ablehnende Haltung gegenüber Reich und Führer aufgeben wird.Der junge deutsche Soldat Karl Otto Hoffmann und der jüdische Journalist David Waltz sind in diesen Tagen mit ihren eigenen Problemen beschäftigt. Karl Otto wird nach Berlin versetzt und tritt dort einen neuen Dienstposten an. David hingegen muss schmerzlich erkennen, dass seine Ehe mit Klara im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland keine Zukunft hat.Noch ahnen beide nicht, dass für jeden von ihnen bald nichts mehr so sein wird wie zuvor.Denn die folgenden dramatischen Ereignisse haben für alle Beteiligten weitreichende Konsequenzen...