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English
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"On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family--sealing her fate in a way she never could...
2) The extra
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
Author
Publisher
New Europe Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughly absorbing story that abounds in unforgettable characters. There is the adolescent narrator, torn between his people and a society that both entices him and rejects him. From his rise in school to his first sexual encounters, from hunger to police harassment, he treads a precarious path--one marked by moments of...
4) The Holocaust in Romania: the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu regime, 1940-1944
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania; they constituted the third largest Jewish community in Europe. Today not more than 14,000 Jews live in Romania, most of them elderly. The record of the Holocaust in Romania includes many curious chapters of support and betrayal, but they have been largely unavailable until now. Radu Ioanid's account based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis of heretofore...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Lucie, the owner of a horse farm, meets Joseph, a handsome drifter with gypsy roots, it is love at first sight, and as they embark on a passionate marriage, everything is perfect, until each spring when gypsy life beckons anew.
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