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WWII
The Righteous Among the Nations - Polish Film Festival
25 July 2017 - 2:52pmThe film by Michal Szczerbic, “The Righteous”, tells the story of the hiding of a Jewish orphan girl, Hania, during the holocaust by a Polish couple. Many years after the war Hania, now an adult, returns to Poland to find the family of her saviours and asks them to accept the honorific title “The Righteous Among the Nations”.
Secret Service Agent to CIA Director - good deeds and misdeeds
5 December 2015 - 4:43pmWarsaw Uprising 1944 - amazing film and an exhibition
29 June 2015 - 3:31pm“Canadian Aviators Help Warsaw during the Uprising” this is the title of a beautiful exhibition which will be on the 2nd floor of the Central Library for the month of July.
Silver Birch Fiction Review: Making Bombs for Hitler
28 February 2013 - 10:35amSilver Birch Fiction Book Review: Making Bombs for Hitler
27 February 2013 - 3:40pmLida and her little sister are taken by the Nazis to Germany. Lida rides a packed train with other children and teens to a work camp. Lida must survive, despite little food, one set of clothes, and mistreatment from the Nazis. She keeps her hope by making friends and planning for the day when she'll see her sister again. Will she make it through the war? Will she ever see her homeland again?
WWII mystery
1 December 2012 - 11:03amI know Maureen Jennings's name. I know she's Canadian. I know she's an award winning author. I know that the television series The Murdoch Mysteries is based on her best selling historical detective series. (I've watched every episode - and season six starts in January '13.) But, I have never physically read a book by Jennings.....until now....and I wish I had done so sooner!