holocaust, 1933-1945

Contains thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Holocaust, followed by two opposing opinions, arranged alphabetically by topic, with a chronology of events from January 1933 to May 1962.

Presents Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel's account of his experiences as a young boy with his father in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and features two novels, including "Dawn" in which a young man, living in Palestine after World War II as a member of a Jewish underground movement, has misgivings when ordered to execute a British hostage, and "Day," in which a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor, involved in an automobile accident, questions the meaning and worth of living.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Collects the stories of Marianne Kohn and Sophie Mandel, following their journey from Germany on the Kindertransport to England, and their new lives there.

In 1939, fifteen-year-old Thomas sails on a German ship bound for Cuba with more than nine hundred German Jews expecting to be granted safe haven in Cuba.

The author uses forensic evidence, eyewitness accounts, and archival materials to describe the stories of the Jewish Holocaust victims that suffered deathly fates and were discovered buried in mass graves throughout the Ukraine.

Henry Oertelt chronicles the experiences he had while being held in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.