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By Lyn Smith, Jean Charles Provost. 2007
Ils étaient juifs, polonais, Témoins de Jéhovah, homosexuels, tsiganes, communistes ou prisonniers de guerre russes. Tous ont en commun d'avoir…
connu l'enfer des camps nazis. Et d'y avoir survécu. Ce sont les témoignages d'une centaine de ces " voix oubliées " qu'a enregistrés Lyn Smith, professeur de sciences politiques, pour le compte de l'Imperial War Museum de Londres, sur une période de vingt-cinq ans. Avec leurs propres mots, ces rescapés de l'inconcevable racontent comment la terreur nazie a peu à peu affecté leur vie quotidienne, jusqu'à l'horreur des ghettos, des camps de concentration ou d'extermination et des marches de la mort. 2007. Titre uniforme: Forgotten voices of the Holocaust.By Primo Levi. 2003
A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un groupe d'Italiens, rescapés des camps nazis, entame une marche de plusieurs…
mois : « accompagnés » par l'Armée Rouge, ils cherchent à rejoindre leur terre natale. Héros et traîtres, paysans et voleurs, savants et nomades se retrouvent pêle-mêle dans une réjouissante pagaille : autant d'hommes qui redécouvrent, émerveillés, la vie, le monde, la forêt, les filles, sans oublier l'art du trafic pour subsister... La Trêve est le récit picaresque et authentique de leurs tribulations extravagantes sur les routes d'Europe centrale. A travers la confrontation de deux peuples, Primo Levi révèle les ressources merveilleuses d'hommes qui se montrèrent à la hauteur de leur destin.By Stephen E Ambrose, Alain Deschamps. 2002
À la veille du débarquement allié de 1944, une unité d'élite, la compagnie E de la 101e division aéroportée de…
l'armée de terre américaine - 140 hommes - , est parachutée dans l'arrière-pays normand. Au prix de combats meurtriers, elle va contribuer à bloquer la contre-offensive allemande. Historien, spécialiste de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'auteur a dépouillé toutes les archives et rencontré les survivants pour composer, jour par jour, le récit de cette extraordinaire épopée. Descriptions régulières de violence. 2004, c2002. Titre uniforme: Band of brothers.By Didier Fischer. 2002
By Primo Levi, Nathalie Bauer. 2004
Pourquoi l'enfer des camps ? Pourquoi la destruction ? Pourquoi l'incapacité de l'homme à assimiler les leçons de l'Histoire ?…
En marge de ses récits sur Auschwitz, Primo Levi n'a cessé de s'interroger sur ce noyau incompréhensible de l'action humaine révélé par la Shoah, comme en témoigne ce recueil de textes rédigés entre 1955 et 1987. De là, Primo Levi tire les fils qui mènent au révisionnisme et au terrorisme, dénonce la répétition de l'Histoire, s'interroge sur la meilleure façon de transmettre ce que d'aucuns ont abandonné à l'indicible, s'exposant sans trêve au rôle de témoin. Des textes d'une passionnante actualité à travers lesquels se dessine une autobiographie à la fois scientifique, littéraire, politique et morale. 2004. Titre uniforme: L'asimmetria e la vita.By Margaret Gaan. 1978
Reminiscences of life in Shanghai from the early 1920s to 1950, when the author and her mother, the only remaining…
members of a Euro-Chinese family, left for Hong Kong and eventually America. Includes portraits of her wacky family and their unscrupulous, but faithful, Chinese household staff. 1978.By Marek Halter. 1995
L'auteur, un Juif qui a fui les persécutions nazies au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, esquisse le portrait des…
hommes et des femmes, qui, en des temps dominés par les lâches et les tueurs, n'ont pas hésité à sauver la vie à des milliers de Juifs au péril de la leur. Leurs actions ont permis de ne pas désespérer de l'humanité. En rendant un vibrant hommage à ces Justes, en restituant leurs témoignages longtemps passés sous silence, l'auteur a voulu créer une mémoire du Bien. Car le Bien, dit-il, est l'espoir et sans ce dernier, on ne peut vivre. 1995.Loin d'adopter un regard strictement français, Olivier Wieviorka replace le débarquement dans le contexte d'une guerre mondiale. S'appuyant sur des…
sources inédites il retrace cette longue épopée, des tout premiers projets à l'assaut final. 2007.By Ella Burakowski. 2015
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.By Carolyn Jackson, Ken Setterington, Malcolm Lester, Jonathan Schmidt. 2013
A history of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the years of the Holocaust. When the Nazis…
came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.By Nicola Naylor. 2001
Many would balk at the idea of a white woman traveling India alone - and in particular, a blind woman.…
Throughout her childhood Nicola Naylor had been fascinated by images of the subcontinent and was determined both to realize her dream of visiting and to push back the stifling constraints imposed by perceptions of her disability. While depending on her third eye - or sixth sense - she explores India from the inside. 2001.By Martin L Parsons. 1998
In this book Dr. Parsons looks behind the government propaganda and traditional portrayals of the evacuation in order to uncover…
the myths which have surrounded this period in British History. His analysis of documentary evidence reveals a more complex picture of evacuation than has hitherto been recognised. Parsons has also allowed the evacuees to speak for themselves through his collection of oral history testimonies. 1998.By Kathy Clark. 2009
Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in 1944.…
So why were twelve-year-old Susan and her sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe? Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered by a group of nuns who risk their lives to protect them. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.By Tim Ward. 1996
During his two years meandering the "Dharma Trail" through Asia, Ward met and fell in love with an Austrian Indologist…
who was in India doing research. Working as her assistant, Ward travels India with her. Together they find themselves sharing their discovery of the tantric path, in which all acts and emotions, including sex and passion, become part of the search for spiritual liberation. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1996.By Tony Spooner. 1992
Malta was a vital base from which Allied aircraft could inflict serious damage on the crucial Axis supply route to…
Rommel in North Africa. In order to secure that route the might of the Luftwaffe and Italian Air Forces were thrown together against the tiny island, affecting not just the defending servicemen and women but the entire population. Heavily bombed and running short of fuel and food, the island laboured to stand firm in the face of the enemy. This book describes how the RAF and FAA fighter, bomber, torpedo and reconnaissance aircraft crews took the fight to the enemy and triumphantly succeeded with every odd stacked against them. 1992.By Dudley Pope. 1998
FLAG 4, the signal for attack with torpedoes, is an account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats and…
US PT-boats in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. It is based on the eyewitness accounts of the officers and men who served in these perilous actions. 1998.By Robin Neillands, Roderick De Normann. 1994
This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and…
the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were there, from commanding officers to privates, are the tales of British, Canadian, American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen and the men and women of the French resistance. Here is a full account of the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 1994.By Pamela Howe Taylor. 1997
Using letters, diaries and newspaper reports the text tells of the people of Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire at the end of…
the Second World War, who welcomed German prisoners of war from the local camp into their homes at Christmas, and later they scraped together food and clothing to send to those same prisoners when they were repatriated to a devastated Germany. 1997.By Stephen H Morgan, John A Weal. 1998
The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to sweep the massed Allied bomber formations from the skies of Germany centred around…
the new crop of jet 'wonder weapons' that were issued to the 'Jagdwaffe' from mid-1944 onwards. Despite operating from autobahns and forest runways, always being short of the exotic fuels necessary and lacking any strength in numbers, a handful of pilots amassed amazing scores in the last year of the war on these aircraft, flying with units like JG 7, JV 44 and NJG 11. This is their story. 1998.By Anna Porter. 2007
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner, a lawyer and journalist, met with Adolf Eichmann in Budapest, where the two men made…
an agreement that allowed 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may also have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil", and prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Some explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.