Fleming Community Library

Sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, the art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sidetracked by a photograph that throws his world upside-down. Could it really be the face of a man who during the last days of World War II had brutalized his mother on the Death March from Auschwitz? Questions abound when Allon, driven by an intensity he had not felt in years, begins to investigate, discovering in the process that the hunt for one man is...

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

""Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers ... Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home. Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third...

The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...

Mila 18 was the command post of the resistance movement organized by the Warsaw Jews. This is the story of the handful of men and women who, knowing they had to die, defied the whole German Army with their homemade weapons and bare hands

Roma Ligocka chronicles her experiences during the Holocaust, reflecting on how her own life seemed to mirror that of a little girl in a red coat that was depicted in the film "Schindler's List".

"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.