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322) Inglourious Basterds
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler....
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A recounting of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who arranged for the transport of nearly 700 children who would otherwise have been sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the late 1930s. From the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert"--
"The inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The shadow of war was spreading...
324) Schindler's list
Publisher
Amblin Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"A stylish, modern adaptation of Shakespeare's dark comedy, with backgrounds drawn on location in Venice. The text is adapted for clarity, and transitions from simple, modern prose to original Shakespearean verse as the play progresses" -- from author's web site.
328) Color me in
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Portable Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"[This book] is the biography -- in graphic novel format -- of the courageous girl who hid with her family from Nazi occupants in Amsterdam, living for two years in a secret annex behind a bookcase. The story begins with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and chronicles the events of the 1930s and 1940s that led to World War II and the Holocaust. Every day spent in hiding brought new anxieties to Anne and her family, until the day they were discovered...
330) An American pickle
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling labourer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
332) Diary of Anne Frank
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"A modern literary classic and an extraordinary social document that gives a unique account of life in hiding under Nazi terror in World War II from the perspective of a teenage Jewish girl"--Container.
333) One life
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
Author
Series
I survived volume 03
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Series
Criterion collection volume 388
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a 'Mengele twin' subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness." -- Provided by publisher.
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