Jewish Non-fiction

 

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1. 50 children: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany

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Pressman, Steven, 1955-
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939--the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States.

2. The Berlin shadow: living with the ghosts of the Kindertransport

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Lichtenstein, Jonathan
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East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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"In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. Growing up in post-war rural Wales where the conflict was never spoken of, Jonathan and his siblings were at a loss to understand their father's relentless drive...