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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021
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When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments...
2) Chopin
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Publisher
HarperPress
Description
This is a new edition of the definitive biography of Chopin, unavailable for many years, by one of the finest of contemporary European historians.
Author
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Frank Blaichman was 16 when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. He escaped deportation to a concentration camp by hiding in the forest, where he later formed a resistance movement & fought a guerilla campaign against the German army until the end of the war.
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Publisher
Sport Media
Pub. Date
2016
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Liverpool Football Club has won trophy after trophy. It has enjoyed success after success. Supporters on the Kop - the most famous stand in football - have worshipped hero after hero. But some of them are more unlikely than others. Jerzy Dudek suffered third degree burns as a child in his native Poland. He grew up in a flat in an industrial Eastern Bloc town. He learned to play football on a patch of grass with bricks as goalposts and worked as a...
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Publisher
Ebury
Pub. Date
2008
Description
On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. This is her story.
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Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2004
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Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Krupa survived Hitler's invasion but served ten years in a labour camp before escaping to Afghanistan after an epic journey. Here he tells his remarkable story.
11) Irena's children: the extraordinary woman who saved thousands of children from the Warsaw ghetto
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The gripping account of a young woman who took staggering risks to save thousands of children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1998
Description
In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes, with deep feeling, the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.
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Publisher
Pimlico
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Karolina Lanckoronska, Polish aristocrat & art historian, was imprisoned & sentenced to death during World War 2. She was subjected to varying treatment, from starvation to extra food rations according to the fluctuating concerns of the authorities in Berlin, ultimately being released from Ravensbruck. This is her story.
Author
Publisher
WH Allen
Pub. Date
2024
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An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, 'Lovers in Auschwitz' is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis' creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history's darkest hour.
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Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey stretching from Siberia to Pakistan, and beyond.
17) Under the wire: the wartime memoir of a Spitfire pilot, legendary escape artist and 'cooler king'
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2005
Description
William Ash presents his personal story of aeroplanes and adventure, incarceration and escape during the Second World War.
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 'Searching for Schindler', Thomas Keneally describes how he discovered the story of Oskar Schindler and once hooked, he went on to discover the full tale of the man who risked his life to save hundreds of Jews. We find out what happened to the survivors, to Schindler himself, and how the story was turned into a book and a film.