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41) Bogdan's Journey
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In 1946, Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last Jewish pogrom (massacre). The militia, soldiers and ordinary townspeople killed over 40 Holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, injuring 80 more. As news of the pogrom spread across Poland, Jews fled the country. The Kielce pogrom became a symbol of Polish post-war anti-Semitism in the Jewish world. Under communism, the pogrom was a forbidden subject in Poland, but it was...
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Japan's society is changing"”increasing numbers of foreigners want to live and work in this country, which has a strong monoculture. Therefore tolerance of other nationalities has become an important issue, and in order to foster international understanding, third grade primary teacher Shigeto Honda has developed an unusual package of lessons in which his students learn about different cultures, specifically their cuisine. Shigeto thinks that 'International...
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"Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator-caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power-as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At the war's end, Frankfurt...
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Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakob Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakob fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost...
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"Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her grandmother and her mother had fled their home city of Königsberg in the far east of Germany near the end of World War II, never to return. But everything changed when O'Donnell traveled to Königsberg--now known as Kaliningrad, and part of Russia--and called her grandmother, who uncharacteristically...
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"This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust. Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined...
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"Cluny Brown has committed an unforgivable sin: She refuses to know her place. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. To teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned Cluny since she was a baby, sends her into service to be a parlor maid at one of England's stately manor houses. At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers: Sir Henry, the quintessential...
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"In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on Russian soil during the most incredible military conflict...
51) Giants and toys
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日本語
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Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car's Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and...
52) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
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"They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of sixteen, who scrawled 'V' (for victory) on the walls of her lycée; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped...
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Trace your Eastern European ancestors from American shores back to the old country. This in-depth guide will walk you step-by-step through the exciting-- and challenging-- journey of finding your Polish, Czech, or Slovak roots. You'll learn how to identify immigrant ancestors, find your family's town of origin, locate key genealogical resources, decipher foreign-language records, and untangle the region's complicated history. The book also includes...
54) Casablanca
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more.
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"Gdy Maryla i Mateusz Cuthbertowie decydują się przygarnąć chłopca z sierocińca, nie maja pojęcia, że od tej pory ich życie wypełnią niespodzianki. Zaczyna się od tego, że na Zielone Wzgórze w Avonleaprzybywa nie chłopiec, lecz jedenastoletnia rudowłosa dziewczynka. Ania to osóbka o nieprzeciętnym temperamencie i wybujałej fantazji. Jej obecność wywróci życie mieszkańców Avonlea do góry nogami, a Zielone Wzgórze nigdy nie...
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"Wyjątkowe wydanie najpopularniejszej książki Astrid Lindgren z zachwycającymi kolorowymi ilustracjami Magdaleny Kozieł-Nowak, w dużym formacie - idealne na prezent! Lasse, Bosse, Lisa, Olle, Britta i Anna mieszkają w Bullerbyn. To maleńka wioska, ale wcale nie jest tam nudno. Każdy dzień, z pozoru zwyczajny, staje się świetną przygodą. Można łowić raki, spać w stogu siana, szukać skarbów, założyć spółdzielnię wiśniową...
57) Poland
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"The European Countries Today series offers readers a broad-ranging yet concise look at Europe today by providing information on 15 of the most important countries in Europe and describes the history, geography, economy, culture, and relationship each country has with its neighbors."--Provided by publisher.
60) Pokuta
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"W pewien upalny ranek 1935 roku trzynastoletnia Briony Tallis jest przypadkowym świadkiem sceny miłosnej między swoją starszą siostrą, Cecilią, a synem sprzątaczki, Robbiem. Wyobraźnia podsuwa jej najrozmaitsze interpretacje tego, co widziała. W końcu dziewczynka na głos wyraża to, co sobie dopowiedziała, i skazuje w konsekwencji niewinnego człowieka na więzienie. To ostatni wieczór, kiedy rodzina Tallisów stanowi jedność. II...
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