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Books, DVD's, music CDs, jewellery and household items comme-morate the story of Auschwitz survivor Eva Brewster and the Shoah [Holocaust], and celebrate Jewish home life and religion.
Literature
Progeny of Light/Vanished
in Darkness
In this expanded version of the NeWest classic, Vanished in Darkness,
Eva Brewster describers her cultured and happy youth, the unbelievable
events that led to her capture and transport to Auschwitz, the harrowing
years there, and the time following her internment as she began to rebuild
her life with a young British intelligence officer, Ross Brewster.
The Last of Nine
Lives
Having detailed her life in German under Hitler's rule and later in the
concentration camp in her book Progeny of Light/Vanished in Darkness,
Eva Brewster now picks up her life story with her marriage to a young
British intelligence officer, Ross Brewster on April Fools Day 1947 and
their life in England, Nigeria, Cameroon, Scotland and finally Canada.
Chava Rosenfarb
Survivors: Seven Short
Stories
Translated from the Yiddish by Goldie Morgentaler
These are stories of exile. Of life, loss, and love. In Survivors, Chava Rosenfarb takes the Yiddish short story, in the tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer, and extends it with touches of Philip Roth and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Chava lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.
The Tree of Live
Triology
Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie
Morgentaler
This three part series highlights stories from the Lodz Ghetto and includes the books On the Brink of Precipice - 1939, From the Depths I Call You - 1940 to 1942, and The Cattle Cars are Waiting - 1942 to 1944.
The Tree of Life Triology won the 1979 Itsik Manger Prize, the world's highest Yiddish literature honour. Chava lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Other
The Auschwitz
Album
Leonard Rees
This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first days after the liberation. It reveals how two SS photographers documented the arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria. The photographs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the 'Kanada' Barracks. They are accompanied by three articles that describe the development of the camp, the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, and the story of how the album was found; a fourth focuses on the camera as a historical tool.
The 189 pictures, arranged in chronological order and reproduced in this album for the first time, are unusually powerful, not least because 70% of the people shown have been identified.
Many of the images sourced for Auschwitz: The Eva Brewster Story come from this album of SS photographs.
Distributed for Yad Vashem Publications
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State [book and 6-part DVD set of the BBC production]
The result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Stories are brought to life through innovative use of
- archival footage
- dramatic recreations of key decision-making moments
- extraordinary testimony
A unique and alarming look at the mindset of the perpetrators - killers like the Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoss, camp doctor Josef Mengele, and S.S. Commander Heinrich Himmler.
Book: Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail.
DVD: Auschwitz occupies a chilling and disturbing place in the history of humankind. It began as a Nazi labour camp to terrorize the polish population and evolved into the site of the largest mass murder ever recorded. This six-part series, narrated by actress Linda Hunt [The Practice, The Year of Living Dangerously], presents an in-depth examination of the camp's evolution and the decisions that enabled such an incomprehensibly inhuman place to come into being.
Jewellery & household items
Highlighting the collections of the Jewish Museum in New York:
- bookmarks
- picture frames
- jewellery
- plates
- magnets
- calendars
- note cards
Music & DVD titles
Songs from the
Lodz Ghetto
Big Old World
A Jewish Odyssey
Putumayo World Music
Auflucht in Shanghai:
The Port of Last Resort [DVD]
Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy
In the years 1938 to 1941, nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai, China. This film highlights the story of these refugees to whom Shanghai was a safe haven at a time when borders closed to Jews desperate to flee Europe.
Whenever we are astonished by atrocities - from My Lai to Rwanda, Bosnia to Iraq - we have allowed ourselves to forget the story of Auschwitz and its message about the human potential for evil. That's why this version of its history is so important and so regrettably relevant.
Leonard Rees
The Auschwitz Album
