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"An astonishing yet true account of a pianist's life in war-torn Syria and his ultimate escape to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most devastating refugee crisis of this century. Aeham Ahmad was born a second-generation refugee--the son of a blind violinist and carpenter who recognized Aeham's talent and taught him how to play piano and love music from an early age. When his grandparents and father were forced to flee Israel and...
2) To life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A Holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America.
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Da CapoPress, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. After being denied landing rights in Havana, the refugees were turned away by the United States and Canada and forced to sail back to Europe, where the gathering storm of the Holocaust awaited them. Two of those refugees were Alex Goldschmidt, a sixty-year-old veteran...
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Publisher
Scherz
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Deutsch
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Memoirs of a Jew who was born in 1923 in Berlin and raised in Gardelegen; both of his parents were physicians. In 1937 Sonnenfeldt and his brother were transferred to a Jewish high school in Berlin; in fall 1938 they emigrated to England. In 1939 his parents fled to Sweden and from there to the USA. In May 1941 Sonnenfeldt was arrested and deported to Australia on the ship "Dunera". He was then sent to India, where he was told that his request made...