warsaw (poland)

Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer, is offered the opportunity to escape an increasingly dangerous Warsaw in the 1930s and a chance for riches in America, but he is held to his homeland by Shosha, a girl he loved as a child and who he discovers has been waiting for him ever since.

A German soldier's photos record the destruction of a Jewish community.

Describes how three children of the Balicki family survived World War II and were reunited with their parents in the international children's village in Switzerland.

The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.

Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.

Chronicles the life of Emmanuel Ringelblum, a Jewish historian who kept a documented history of life in the Warsaw Ghetto; covers his life from his childhood to his execution in 1944, and provides historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

Examines the life of Mordechai Anielewicz, an activist in Poland's Jewish community who organized and led the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis during World War II as commander of the Jewish Combat Organization.

A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.

Tells a story of the horrors endured by Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ending with the rescue of forty who escape through the sewers.