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Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
Español
Description
A fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II, Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
6) Trajectory
Author
Language
English
Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"Combinando de forma magistral la ficci̤n con datos hist̤ricos, Mario Escobar sit͠a al lector en la terrible situaci̤n de los jud̕os polacos y su lucha por la supervivencia en el Gueto de Varsovia. Varsovia, 1939 Agnieszka Ignaciuk y su hijo, Henryk, llegan al orfanato de Korczak poco antes de estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. All̕, conocen y son testigos de la vida y obra de Janusz Korczak, el heroico maestro y autor que dedica su vida a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Andrée Geulen and Ida Sterno, who worked with the Committee for the Defense of Jews to hide more than three thousand Jewish children in Belgium during World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
"Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing...
11) The dirty dozen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.
12) Stella
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Una historia de amor imposible en el contexto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el nazismo y la caza de judíos. Friedrich es un joven suizo que se muda a Berlín para seguir con su carrera artística. Allí conoce a Kristin, una chica muy hermosa y segura de sí misma que se hace cargo de él y le enseña a moverse entre los cenáculos de la efervescente vida nocturna de la ciudad, con sus cabarets y clubs de jazz. Pronto, la intensidad de su relación...
Series
Saints and soldiers volume 3
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During the very last days of WWII, American soldiers fight their way through Germany against small pockets of resistance from remnants of the German forces. During the struggle, two American M18 tank destroyers are sent to root out a die hard group of Nazis holed up in the Harz Mountains as racial tensions mount amid the crew.
15) The night war
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With his French village under Nazi control, Paul Colbert joins a secret resistance after rescuing an American paratrooper and gets his chance to make a difference in the midst of the largest invasion in history, working to do his part in turning horror into hope.
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