The epic novel of two families and the genocide in Nazi Germany, by the writer of the blockbuster TV miniseries.The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, with whom their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions realized with the SS at the side of the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich.The Weisses are Jewish, also "good" Germans—but under the new regime, they are doomed.Told through the reminiscences of Erik Dorf, the ambitious SS ...

Cancer is an equal opportunity disease. Strike 1: In 1995, Gerald's radiation oncologists gave him a fifty percent chance of surviving tongue cancer three years disease free. Strike 2: In 1997, neck cancer restarted his recovery clock. And strike 3: In 2008, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Life Constricted To Love, Hugs and Laughter isn't a baseball metaphor. Written from a father's perspective it mainly addresses the first discovery and treatment.Before cancer, I had worked...

He woke up unrecognizable, abandoned by those he loved. This haunting audiobook explores identity, isolation, and the fragile human spirit, immersing listeners in Kafka’s timeless psychological masterpiece of alienation, transformation, and existential struggle.Through this timeless psychological narrative, listeners confront profound questions about identity, belonging, and the cost of conditional love. Every moment reveals the subtle cruelty of a world quick to judge and slow to ...

Titus, emperor of Rome, wants to marry Berenice, queen of Palestine, but decides that Rome will not be able to handle having him marry a foreign queen. Berenice refuses to stay in this case and leaves Rome. Unlike many of the other Racine plays, there actually are survivors (albeit, broken-hearted survivors) at the end of this one!

Fifteen-year-old Hanna Berkenski journeys from her family's tiny apartment in the Warsaw Ghetto through an awful night spent in a cattle-car with her mother and sister to the welcoming orchestra at Auschwitz where she was to be a violinist for three years.As the train arrives at Auschwitz, flowers, sunshine and music feel like warm welcomes to her. She's been told she'll be spending the next few weeks in a "work camp" until her family can be reunited and relocated. Even the snowfla...

This "ambitious" New York Times bestseller tells the multigenerational saga of a Russian-Jewish family who emigrates to America and eventually Israel ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Chavala Rabinsky is sixteen when her mother dies and she becomes the caretaker of her five siblings. Beautiful and wise beyond her years, Chavala catches the eye of Dovid Landau, a poor cobbler whose dreams transform her life when he marries her. But Odessa, Russia, i...

A true story of shattered childhoods...Following her escape from Nazi Germany and the loss of her family Judith searches for unconditional love and acceptance. In a bleak boarding house she meets her future husband – another Jewish refugee who cares for her when she is ill.Tragically she associates illness with love and a pattern is set. Judith’s behaviour eventually spiral into anorexia – a disease little known or understood in 1950’s Britain. While she starves herself, Judith for...

This true-life novel was written in the aftermath of the Second World War and the authors terrible experiences in a Nazi death camp. Judith, born in Prague was deported with her Jewish parents to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland when she was only 13. Within a year both her parents die and she is left alone to fend for herself. Her sanity is saved by the flowering of love with an extraordinary older man, Michael.

"A poignant and riveting investigation" behind an iconic photograph of the Holocaust in Poland (Elie Wiesel)."An often disturbing, sometimes uplifting but always fascinating and incredible piece of history drawn from a single image. This book is destined to become a classic piece of work on the Holocaust." — The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV)A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A c...

The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes.

Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed to dig a shallow hole in the ground beneaththe cellar of an heroic Polish mechanic's shop.

The Nazis tried to destroy Inge's life--but they could not break her spirit.Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents were sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family's harrowing story--and how they carried w...