Author: Nechama Tec
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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"[An] excellent book...Not only...the first thorough treatment of the subject, but it is also charged with a poignancy that only a survivor can summon"--The Philadelphia Inquirer. "A remarkable book"--The New York Review of Books. Like Anne Frank but more fortunate, Nechama Tec was one of the "hidden children"--Jews taken in and protected from the Holocaust by Christian families. Here she examines the role of Christians in saving Jewish lives, showing the personal reality of how individuals resisted the Nazi onslaught.
Author: Richard E. Herskind
Publisher: Elim Publishing
ISBN: 9781935018421
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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When Light Pierced the Darkness traces a hopeless near death encounter to an unexpected miracle of healing through faith in Jesus Christ. Having wasted his high school years, and following a serious hospitalization in the military the author subsequently overcame his academic handicap, obtained engineering degrees and took a research position with NASA. The author, Richard E. Herskind, saw many lives changed for the better as a result of his willingness to bring Christ into his workplace. This book is about the challenges and the victory that faith in Jesus Christ brought to him and others as well.
Author: Nechama Tec
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199744025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944--the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families--hungry, exposed to the harsh winter weather--managed not only to survive, but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Arguing that this success would have been unthinkable without the vision of one man, Tec offers penetrating insight into the group's commander, Tuvia Bielski. Tec brings to light the untold story of Bielski's struggle as a partisan who lost his parents, wife, and two brothers to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans. She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis. Herself a Holocaust survivor, Nechama Tec here draws on wide-ranging research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans--including Tuvia Bielski himself--to reconstruct here the poignant and unforgettable story of those who chose to fight.
Author: Nechama Tec
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105193
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Nechama Tec
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195035001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A story of a young Jewish girl's coming-of-age during the tragic years of the Holocaust.
Author: Nechama Tec
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019503905X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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A moving biography of Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew who passed as a Christian in occupied Poland, worked as a translator for the German police, and risked his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. Denounced, he escaped and found shelter in a convent, where he became a Catholic and later a priest and monk.
Author: Eric A. Johnson
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, and delving deeply into the how and why of this horrendous regime. Illustrations.
Author: Laura Kaye
Publisher: Laura Kaye
ISBN: 0999850458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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"Laura Kaye has a gift for writing beautifully damaged men and Caden Grayson leads the pack with enough vulnerability to twist your heart in knots." ~ NYT Bestseller Tessa Bailey Two strangers... When accountant Makenna James finds herself stranded in a pitch-black elevator, she can’t help but wonder about the stranger stuck with her. All she noticed about him before the lights went out was a dragon tattoo; all she knows now is his sexy, gruff voice in the darkness. Four hours... Caden Grayson is inked, pierced, scarred on the inside and out—and terrified of the dark for reasons he’d rather not remember. Trapped in his worst nightmare, only the sweet voice of the red-headed beauty distracts him from his fear. And, oh, man, as the hours pass and the darkness heats up, that’s nothing compared to her touch. One pitch-black elevator... He’s all rough edges and she’s pin-striped skirts, but in the darkness they open up and reach out without any preconceptions to hold them back. But as attraction grows and sparks fly, will they feel the same when the lights come back on "A beautiful read with Kaye's trademark sexiness and smart storytelling! Makenna and Caden are magic together--I loved this book!" ~ NYT Bestseller Jennifer Probst
Author: Anita Lobel
Publisher: Greenwillow
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The beloved Caldecott Honor artist recounts a tale of a vastly different kind--her own gripping memoir of childhood of imprisonment and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland. Illustrated with 12 pages of archival photos.
Author: Ann Voskamp
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414388519
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The New York Times bestselling Christmas classic. Over 250,000 books in print. An annual bestseller. Thousands of readers have already fallen in love with Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts, and this Christmas, Ann will help readers celebrate the lineage and the majesty of God’s greatest gift—Jesus Christ. In what has already become a holiday classic, Voskamp reaches back into the pages of the Old Testament to explore the lineage of Jesus via the advent tradition of “The Jesse Tree.” Beginning with Jesse, the father of David, The Greatest Gift retraces the epic pageantry of mankind, from Adam to the Messiah, with each day’s reading pointing to the coming promise of Christ. Sure to become a holiday staple in every Christian home, The Greatest Gift is the perfect gift for the holidays and a timeless reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
