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Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303445798946,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71-5ifiM5QL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1705338933"},{"product_id":"my-mothers-war","title":"My Mother's War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Eva\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her time as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Using the letters, she reconstructed her mother's experience in the underground resistance movement and then as a prisoner in the Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe letters reveal an amazing story of life during wartime, including declarations of love from her fiancé before his tragic death as a Spitfire pilot, prison notes smuggled out in her laundry, and passionate but sometimes terrifying messages from a German professional criminal who ultimately would save Sabine’s life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA one-of-a-kind story of survival, \u003cem\u003eMy Mother’s War\u003c\/em\u003e captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303457628194,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71bLAi8BhBL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707501345"},{"product_id":"my-name-is-selma","title":"My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelma Van de Perre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding—until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz. In an act of defiance and with nowhere else to turn, Selma took on an assumed identity, dyed her hair blond, and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years “Marga” risked it all. Using a fake ID, and passing as Aryan, she traveled around the country and even to Nazi headquarters in Paris, sharing information and delivering papers—doing, as she later explained, what “had to be done.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp as a political prisoner. Unlike her parents and sister who she later found out died in other camps—Selma survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. 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In her extraordinary work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eResistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to bring these disparate histories into a single narrative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking us from France in the west to parts of the Soviet Union in the east, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eResistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals why and how small bands of individuals undertook actions that could lead not merely to their own deaths, but to the destruction of their entire communities. As Kochanski demonstrates, most who joined up were ordinary people who would not have been expected—even by themselves—to become heroes. Simultaneously panoramic and heartbreakingly intimate, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eResistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis an incomparable history necessary for any home library.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303459659810,"sku":"","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/91bGu8qpOYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707509185"},{"product_id":"resistance-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising","title":"Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising","description":"\u003cp\u003eGutman, Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. 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Instead of running orgiving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- foughtback, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding theBelarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis andestablished a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to jointheir ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust communitybegan to emerge, a \"Jerusalem in the woods.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. 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Risking arrest and death, the sisters help save others, sheltering them in a clandestine safehouse in the woods, they called “The High Nest.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis secret refuge would become one of the most important Jewish safehouses in the country, serving as a hiding place and underground center for resistance partisans as well as artists condemned by Hitler. From The High Nest, an underground web of artists arises, giving hope and light to those living in terror in Holland as they begin to restore the dazzling pre-war life of Amsterdam and The Hague. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the house and its occupants are eventually betrayed, the most terrifying time of the sisters' lives begins. As Allied troops close in, the Brilleslijper family are rushed onto the last train to Auschwitz, along with Anne Frank and her family. The journey will bring Janny and Lien close to Anne and her older sister Margot. 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In 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, Max’s parents and four children moved across the border to Groningen, Holland. Max finished his schooling there. Hoping to emigrate to what was then Palestine, he trained on Dutch farms to acquire the necessary agricultural skills. It was during that time that he met and fell in love with Metta Lande. In July 1939, the ship “Dora” was anchored in Amsterdam harbor to bring young Jews to Palestine. As Max stood on the quay, waiting to board the ship, a Dutch Zionist leader pleaded with him to remain in Holland, to coordinate rescue activities for Jewish youths. Heeding that plea, Max stayed behind. The Dora was to be the last ship to leave Amsterdam for Palestine. Soon after, in May 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland. Under the guidance of Joop Westerweel, a non-Jewish Dutch pacifist, Max and other Jewish resisters worked to move Jewish youngsters to safety outside of Holland. 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Since Max did not live to describe these events, the author has encased the book’s true story inside a fictional frame: a German author is commissioned to write a book about Max. She travels to Haifa, Israel to interview a man who grew up with Max, accompanied him in his rescue activities, was arrested with him and was alongside him when he died. 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