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Author
Publisher
Hippocrene Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1987
Language
English
Description
An illustrated history of Poland, tracing the evolution of Polish society, its mentality, outlook, behavior, and taste over the course of one thousand years, and highlighting those political and diplomatic events that had repercussions beyond the boundaries of the country itself.
3) Poland
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A history of the town of Auschwitz, focusing on the question of why and how it came to be the site of a violent concentration camp designed to terrorize and incarcerate Poles, and showing how it evolved into an extermination camp for Jews during World War II. Includes architectural plans and blueprints for the camp.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....
10) Konin: a quest
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Chronicle of the author's quest to learn about the inhabitants and town of Konin, a small community in Poland that was lost during the German invasion in 1939, taking with it the lives of many relatives the author never had a chance to know.
11) Poland
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
A militant group of Polish farmers wish to present grievances and demands to Szymon Bukowski, the Communist Minister of Agriculture, and this introduces the reader to a 700-year sweep of Polish history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jascha and Lilka escape separately from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they live in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales about his war adventures. One day, forty years after the war, Jascha receives a letter inviting him to give a reading in Warsaw. He tells Lilka that nothing remains of the city they knew; she is nostalgic for the city of her childhood. Traveling by train through a frozen...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003, c1999
Language
English
Description
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of the Orensteins, a Jewish family living in Poland during the Second World War. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command, including Heinrich Himmler. Orenstein's lucid prose recreates...
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