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1) Deviation
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than 50,000 photos of the nightmare that surrounded him. Brasse's...
4) Primo Levi
Author
Series
Publisher
La otra H
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Pocos meses antes de su muerte, Primo Levi conoce a los alumnos de la escuela primaria de Rignon en Turín, la misma a la que él asistió cuando era niño. De la mano del escritor, los niños aprenderán qué fue el Holocausto, y conocerán la experiencia en primera persona de uno de los supervivientes del infierno de Auschwitz, una de las páginas más oscuras de la historia del siglo XX. Este cómic se complementa con una detallada cronología...
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