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Kinderlager

an oral history of young Holocaust survivors
1998
Draws on interviews with three women who recount their experiences as child survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death camp.

Shadow of the wall

1990
Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization.

The man from the other side

1991
Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

Then

2010
After Nazi soldiers commandeer their orphanage in Poland, young Felix escapes with his friend Zelda, but the safe places the pair finds to hide quickly turn dangerous, and the orphans must remain on the run to avoid capture and death in a concentration camp.

Oskar Schindler

1996
Examines the life of the German who saved more than 1,000 Jews from death during World War II.

Once

2010
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Polish Americans

2003
Describes the conditions in Poland that led people to immigrate to the United States and what their daily lives are like in their new home.

Let me tell you a story

a memoir of a wartime childhood
2013
Calverley recounts her time as a child spent in a Jewish ghetto in Poland and how she survived after the loss of her mother and grandmother.

The lost childhood

a memoir
2006
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.

Eva underground

2006
In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

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