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When Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track the movements of a prolific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, it set in motion one of the most remarkable episodes in Irish history. What followed was a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that would wind its way through the capital and its suburbs, reverberate through the corridors of power, test the sympathies of those in high society and even expand to jeopardise the Allied war effort.

Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezín, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation.

Welcome to Librarian's Choice, a podcast produced by the Winter Park Library. On this podcast we will discuss a different book per episode, giving our honest thoughts and opinions on the topics at hand. Each host will select a relevant book based upon their interests or specialties and lead a discussion to discover how the material was perceived by the other hosts. This short segment will introduce you to our podcast hosts: Archivist Rachel Simmons, Public Services Librarian Jeremy Zorn, Public Services Librarian Anne Simpson, and Community Outreach Librarian Mikayla Miller.

a discussion of furry literature and related arts, presented Altivo, the Clydesdale librarian.

In this fascinating account, cultural historian Kathy Peiss reveals how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus of intelligence and national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. Focusing on the ordinary Americans who carried out these missions, she shows how they made decisions on the ground to acquire sources that would be useful in the war zone as well as on the home front.