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99 books · 42 voters · list created January 19th, 2012 by Cold War Conversations Podcast. Tags: germany , katyn , poland , polish , polish-history , soviet , warsaw-ghetto , warsaw-uprising , world-war-2
Gerda Weissmann was only age fifteen when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Born in Bielsko Poland to a middle-class Jewish family, the book follows her family’s loss and tragedy through the Holocaust. The author survived multiple concentration camps and a death march against impossible odds.
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May 12, 2014 · 4.5 281 ratings. See all formats and editions. The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last.
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- Harvard University Press
Below are our recommendations of the best historical fiction set in World War 2, also including novels written by participants in the war.
Ranging from military histories of Stalingrad to a book of recipes from the Terezin concentration camp, the sheer amount of reading material on World War II is overwhelming. Here are the 10...
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Jul 8, 2023 · Maus by Art Spiegelman. Originally published as a serial from 1980 to 1991, Maus depicts the recollections of Vladek Spiegelman as told to his son Art (the author and artist). While interviewing his father, Art learns of Vladek’s experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II, including how he managed to survive the Holocaust.
