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42) The chrysalis
Author
Language
English
Description
Mara Coyne represents an auction house to prove the Crystalis, a 16th century masterpiece, wasn't stolen by the Nazis. She discovers that documents from the auction house have been forged and goes to London to discover the truth.
43) Knizhnye vory
Author
Language
Russian
Description
Published in English in 2017 under the title The book thieves: the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance.
Originally published: Stockholm: Norstedts, 2015.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world--tens-of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections, and stole from Jewish individuals, schools, and synagogues. Early in their regime, the Nazis burned some books in spectacular bonfires, but most they saved,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Documents the inspiring January 2011 story about how thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators joined hands around the great Library of Alexandria to protect the building and the freedom it represents.
Author
Series
Report / 114th Congress 2d session Senate volume 114-394
Publisher
[U. S. Government Printing Office]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
53) On the natural history of destruction: with essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Amery, and Peter Weiss
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The first country to adopt Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish policies, Slovakia transported three-quarters of its Jewish population to concentration camps in a matter of months, including Yuri Dojc's grandfather. Many years later, Dojc returned to his ancestor's home, camera in hand. Serendipity led him to an abandoned Jewish school in eastern Slovakia, where time had stood still since the day in 1943 when all those attending were taken away to the camps....