Query: what are some books about new york city and the holocaust.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Devil's Arithmetic
Marathon Man (novel)
Day (Wiesel novel)
Just Like That (novel)
Sophie's Choice (novel)
The History of Love
Evidence from documents: The Devil's Arithmetic: '''''The Devil's Arithmetic''''' is a historical fiction time slip novel written by American author Jane Yolen and published in 1988. The book is about Hannah Stern, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York, and is sent back in time to experience the Holocaust. During a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported back in time to 1941 Poland, during World War II, where she is sent to a concentration camp and learns the importance of knowing about the past.
Author Jane Yolen, who is Jewish, noted that she had considered writing about the Holocaust for some time, but was overwhelmed. She was convinced to pursue the subject by an editor of hers at the time, who was a Rabbi's wife. ''The Devil's Arithmetic'' is the author's first book that deals explicitly with Jewish themes.
Marathon Man (novel): books about new york city and the holocaust.: A former Nazi SS dentist at Auschwitz, Dr. Christian Szell, now residing in Paraguay, has been living on the proceeds of diamonds he extorted from prisoners there. The diamonds are kept at a bank in New York by his father. The sales and transfers of proceeds are facilitated by a secret US agency called "The Division" for whom Szell has provided information about other escaped Nazis. When his brother dies in a car accident, Szell must come to New York himself to retrieve the diamonds, as there is no one else he can trust with them.
books: a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman.
Day (Wiesel novel): Wiesel explains, "In ''Night'' it is the 'I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
''Day'' is the story of a Holocaust survivor who is struck by a taxicab in New York City.
Just Like That (novel): what are some books about new york city and the holocaust.: '''''Just Like That''''' (1994) is a novel by Lily Brett about Holocaust survivors in the United States.
new york city: The novel chronicles the lives of a group of Jews – or rather, a Jewish family – in the U.S.A., in particular New York City, over a period of roughly seven months during 1991 and 1992.
Sophie's Choice (novel): the holocaust.: '''''Sophie's Choice''''' is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. It concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding-house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends.
what are some books about new york city: As Sophie and Stingo attempt to flee New York, Sophie reveals her deepest, darkest secret: on the night that she arrived at Auschwitz, a camp doctor made her choose which of her two children would die immediately by gassing and which would continue to live, albeit in the camp. Of her two children, Sophie chose to sacrifice her eight-year-old daughter, Eva, in a decision that has left her in mourning and filled with a guilt that Sophie cannot overcome. By now alcoholic and deeply depressed, Sophie is willing to self-destruct with Nathan, who has already tried to persuade her to commit suicide with him. Despite Stingo proposing marriage and a shared night that relieves Stingo of his virginity and fulfills many of his sexual fantasies, Sophie disappears, leaving only a note in which she says that she must return to Nathan.
The History of Love: ''The History of Love'' was published in early 2005 as was ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'', written by Jonathan Safran Foer who had just married Krauss. Both books feature a precocious youth who set out in New York City on a quest. Both protagonists encounter old men with memories of World War II (a Holocaust survivor in Krauss and a survivor of the Dresden firebombing in Foer)