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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal Publisher Comments Robert Coles, The Dalai Lama, Matthew Fox, Mary Gordon, Harold S. Kushner, Albert Speer, Desmond Tutu, and 47 others respond to Wiesenthal's famous question: "Can evil be forgiven?"... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Recent Picador Highlights) by Wladyslaw Szpilman Publisher Comments A well-balanced mix of Nonfiction, General Fiction, Romance and Mystery in the lightweight softcover format preferred by many readers. Selections are a blend of international authors, chosen for the broadest appeal. There are also some carefully selected... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally From Powells.com In an engrossing account based on the testimony of those known as Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews,) Thomas Keneally reconstructs the story of Oskar Schindler, the enigmatic prison camp Direktor and German war profiteer who became the unlikely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 (I Will Bear Witness #02) by Victor Klemperer Publisher Comments Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pianist : The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman Publisher Comments Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festivals most prestigious prizethe Palme dOr. On... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kaddish for a Child Not Born by Imre Kertesz Synopsis Imre Kertesz's mesmerizing novel is a tale of identity and memory -- the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust. The story unfolds at a writer's retreat as the narrator, a middle-aged survivor of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen Publisher Comments This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashev Singer Publisher Comments Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith Publisher Comments Set amid the growing tyranny of Germanys Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Günther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstancesand... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker Publisher Comments One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in an unnamed German-occupied ghetto, the story centers on an unlikely hero, Jakob Heym, who... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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