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Zoltan Beck is dying. His devoted but long-suffering sons, Ben and Frank, are trying to prepare themselves and their families for Zoltan's eventual departure...but they can't quite bring themselves to believe that the end is really at hand, and neither can Zoltan himself. The head of a family marked by war and tragedy for decades, he "can't stand to be in a room with a miserable person" and has done his best to keep the pain of his refugee past from his beloved children.

Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of a Belgium national hero, the famous General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels, is the eldest daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, their resilience and strength are tested. Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee.

Eduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. It is 1984 and their native country, in the midst of a violent civil war, feels newly alien to them – their Spanish faltering, already half-forgotten. Their grandfather collects the boys from the airport and drives them into the mountains, depositing them at what they're told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the children meet a counsellor called Samuel Blum: a handsome young man with sky-blue eyes who knows about all kinds of things.

Guiomar’s life and love are upended when she learns her family are secret Jews living in the shadow of the Grand Inquisitor’s dungeons. The Silver Candlesticks is the story of a young woman who learns her family is Jewish just as the Spanish Inquisition grips Sevilla. A new Inquisitor, Padre Ignacio Dominguez, has come to town to ferret out the secret Jews who remain in Spain one hundred years after the Edict of Expulsion forced most to leave or convert.

Удивительная и трогательная история жизни Лейба Гройсмана, авантюриста и заботливого патриарха семейства, гения предпринимательства и просто маленького человека на фоне больших событий XX века. Да, Лейб Гройсман — не самый приметный и далеко не идеальный человек. Но он-таки умел жить, добиваться успеха и всегда заботился о своей семье. Лейб Гройсман двигался вперед, несмотря на все испытания и невзгоды, что подкидывала ему жизнь. И что бы он ни делал, основной движущей силой этого великого комбинатора всегда была любовь — к родителям, жене, детям, племянникам и внукам.

When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As the measures imposed by the cruel SS become ever more repressive, sister and brother, Rachael and Hendrik, join the Dutch Resistance.

'Prepare to have your heart broken' – Good Housekeeping Woman & Home Book Club Pick Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, seek shelter in a local farmer’s barn. They spend their days...

Aaron Sanders was proud of his team for the job they did on Immedia-Date. Still, what kind of start-up CEO doesn’t test their product themselves? A simple plan turned into the date of his life.

The true story of 14-year-old Lucy who survived the concentration camp of Auschwitz. LUCY DEUTSCH (born Lucy Lebovitz in 1930 in a village in the Karpathian mountains) was 14 years old when was deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau with her parents and three siblings. While her mother and two younger siblings went straight to the crematorium, Lucy could escape the gas chamber by pretending to be eighteen years old. Lucy’s strength and faith of a better future ahead helped her to survive the unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi machinery in the concentration camp.

Un tatuaje en la piel puede condenarte o salvarte la vida. Inspirado en una conmovedora historia real. Es 1943 y Ana Kaminski cruza las puertas de hierro de Auschwitz junto a su amiga Ester Pasternak. Cuando llegan ante el oficial, Ana dice que es comadrona y que Ester es su asistente. Pronto se da cuenta de que el destino de muchos niños está en sus manos. Cuando dos oficiales de las SS arrebatan a un bebé de los brazos de su madre para confiarla a una familia alemana, Ana siente un dolor infinito.

Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths.

Kurz vor der Hochzeit beichtet Robert seiner schwangeren Frau, dass er als SS-Offizier im Konzentrationslager Dachau arbeitet. Doch auch Anneliese hat Robert ein Geständnis zu machen: Ihr Vater ist Jude. Und da ist noch die schwangere Jüdin Esther, die Anneliese im Luftschutzkeller kennenlernt und der sie unbedingt helfen will. Diese Hilfe führt sie ins KZ Ravensbrück.

1938: Fanny Zelshinsky is a sophisticated, modern daughter of the city’s Jewish elite who wants nothing more than to be recognized as a legitimate artist by her family, her radical professor whom she idolizes, and the world at large. And all while she wonders if she is really going to go through with her wedding.

México, 1924. Desde las frías tierras de Europa oriental, donde ser judío se ha convertido en un estigma y sinónimo de persecución, dos jóvenes parejas atraviesan el gran océano para escapar del antisemitismo y de las guerras que están exterminando a su gente. En México hallan una riqueza que los sorprende, así como una comunidad que los recibe con los brazos abiertos, sin embargo, el peso del pasado es una carga difícil de sobrellevar y una retahíla de secretos y traiciones, que ocultan como cualquier familia, los perseguirá hasta el Nuevo Mundo.

Tasha Ancel, de dieciséis años, se gira para echar un último vistazo al lugar que le ha robado la libertad y la infancia. No sabe cómo ha sobrevivido; la mayoría ha muerto tras las puertas del campo de concentración. Por primera vez en meses, su corazón late con la esperanza de un futuro y de sacar adelante a los niños que ahora se aferran a ella. Las SS arrancaron a Tasha de los brazos de su madre unos días antes de que la deportaran. De ella, solo conserva un mechón de cabello pelirrojo.

Yakov Holtzman arrives as 'a displaced person' in Melbourne—a destination as far away as it is possible to get from the graveyard that is Europe. He has put behind him the years he spent as a Nazi resistance leader with a band of partisans in the forests of Lithuania—and the family he lost—to join his brother and start a new life as the watchmaker he once was. Yakov now looks for solace—and love—in the fragmented and traumatised community of Jewish refugees taking root in a new land.

From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed begins to look back at all her failures—including her child. “Jordy Rosenberg might be one of our most fearless living novelists. There are no half-measures in his work, just big ideas and living...

In her 50s, Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never fully understood why her DC-based parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that just so happened to collapse as they drove across it. Her search for answers prompted a failed career in journalism, and now she’s an aspiring novelist teaching at a local community college waiting for her literary dreams to finally come true.

Während der Lektüre eines Buchs über das Leben des Buddha fällt der Erzähler in einen unruhigen Traum, in dem er sich im geheimnisvollen Labyrinth des Prager Ghettos wieder findet. In dieser gespenstischen Atmosphäre voller Liebe und Leidenschaft, Intrige, Hass und Verbrechen, Angst und Grauen begegnet er dem Golem, einem von einem weisen Rabbiner aus einem Lehmklumpen geschaffenen künstlichen Menschen. Dieser grandiose Roman entführt den Hörer in eine verwirrend surreale Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Traum und Wachen, Wahn und Wirklichkeit auf unheimliche Weise verschwinden.

Él era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario alemán, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadía e ingenio, se convirtió en un héroe en medio del horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En este gran hito de la literatura sobre el Holocausto, Thomas Keneally recrea magistralmente sus peligrosas proezas y cómo utilizó su fortuna para comprar una fábrica cerca de un campo de concentración y así salvar la vida de más de 1.300 judíos.