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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager Marga is selected to mother a baby for the Fuhrer, but can...
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"1970--In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his time as a fearless British operative in France. But a critical head injury left Noah with frustrating memory gaps and a burning question that plagues him--who was the agent who saved his life during that tragic final mission? Determined to find answers, Noah's daughter Charlotte embarks on a quest from their cozy home in Liverpool, leading her to the...
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Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
5) Rescue
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Pub. Date
Ã2021
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (8 hrs., 15 min) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests. Now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
6) Resistance
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (9 hrs., 29 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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"Chaya Lindner is a Jewish teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in ever-present danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away to a death camp, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged papers and her fair features, Chaya becomes a courier, able to travel between the isolated Jewish ghettos of Poland...
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WWII Women Spies volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
423 pages; 23 cm
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"Can a lone woman stop the Nazis; advance 1940: The air is dense with the thick, acrid smoke of German bombs as Marie-Madeleine departs Paris, utterly alone in the world. Her destination is hundreds of kilometers away, where Navarre told her to meet him. Surely, he would have a plan to get back at the Boches and fight for their freedom. But is she willing to sacrifice everything for the cause? Torn between defending her country and safeguarding those...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"During World War II, families all across Europe huddled together in basements, attics, and closets as Nazi soldiers rounded up anyone Jewish. The Star of David, a symbol of faith and pride, became a tool of hate when the Nazis forced Jewish people to carry papers stamped with that star, so that it was clear who to capture. But many brave souls dared to help them. Jewish teenager Jacqueline Gauthier, a member of the French Resistance who had to conceal...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxix, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
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