May Activity Calendar Reads

There is a random holiday for every day. Read a book to mark the occasion!
 

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1. The Auschwitz photographer: the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls

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Author:
Crippa, Luca, 1964-
Notes:
MAY 8 IS TIME OF REMEMBRANCE AND RECONCILIATION FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN WWII; RECOMMENDED DUE TO WWII NONFICTION
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:

The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everything he believed in.

He refused.

Poland, 1939. Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive, assigned to work as the camp's intake photographer and take "identity pictures" of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload. Brasse soon

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