holocaust, 1939-1945-personal narratives

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holocaust, 1939-1945-personal narratives

The cage

1988
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.

Fragments

memories of a wartime childhood
1996
Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soliders in 1945.

Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature

2002
Profiles 128 of the most influential first generation authors who survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust.

My years in Theresienstadt

how one woman survived the Holocaust
1997
A mixture of prose, diary entries, and poetry relating the author's experiences in the concentration camp Theresienstadt.

After long silence

a memoir
1999
Helen Fremont chronicles her struggle to discover her parents' true religious history and discusses how she felt when she realized that her parents had lied about their Catholic upbringing because of their experiences during the Holocaust.

The seamstress

a memoir of survival
1999
Recounts the author's experiences as a Jew in Nazi occupied Europe, her survival in a concentration camp, and post-war life in America speaking out as a Holocaust survivor.
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