rescue

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

This volume on the Holocaust presents excerpted documents that reflect the experiences of oppressors, resisters, liberators, witnesses, and survivors.

Tells the story of Irena Sendler, a courageous Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

The true story of some of the brave people in Europe who helped to hide and evacuate Jews during World War II, at the risk of their own lives.

Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler risks his life and his fortune to save over one thousand Jews from extermination during World War II by employing them in his crockery factory.

Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to the ghetto and then to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.

In this biography of journalist Varian Fry, we have the first complete account of the most remarkable private American rescue effort of WWII.