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  Eyewitness Auschwitz

  Three Years in the Gas Chambers

  by Susanne Flatauer, Helmut Freitag, Filip Mu?ller

  Muller is a source-one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it.
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  The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy; 2nd Edition

  by Misha Glenny

  This book explains the changes that will be in place as a result of the 1992 democratic elections throughout Eastern Europe. For 40 years Eastern Europe has been erroneously considered a political monolith but beneath apparently identical structures of power, old political tensions continued to ferment. Glenny shows how these traditions have broken out into newly legitimized political parties, offering the reader... (more)
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  The lovely sergeant

  by Alan Burgess

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  Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony: Jewish Secular Endeavors (1867-1938)

  by A. Robert Neurath

  Unknown to many, Bratislava, presently the capital of Slovakia, used to be in the Habsburg Austro Hungarian Monarchy, a multi national city. German, Hungarian, and Slovak speaking residents represented the majority of the population, explaining why the city had multiple names Pressburg, Pozsony, and Bratislava. But it took a long time before the Jewish community in this city was given the same privileges and... (more)
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  Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony: Jewish Secular Endeavors (1867-1938)

  by A. Robert Neurath

  Unknown to many, Bratislava, presently the capital of Slovakia, used to be in the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, a multi-national city. German, Hungarian, and Slovak speaking residents represented the majority of the population, explaining why the city had multiple names – Pressburg, Pozsony, and Bratislava. But it took a long time before the Jewish community in this city was given the same privileges and... (more)