Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of humankind.
A compilation of excerpts from testimonies about the liberation from Nazi concentration camps in 1945. This is an attempt to portray through photographs and to describe through testimonies the complexity of the liberation and its special significance for those Jews who remained alive.
My true story: how forty-five Jews lived underground and survived the Holocaust
Mayer, Bernard
1994
The true story of how we lived, never seeing daylight, terrified by the Gestapo raid, suffering from shortages of water, food, and air - yet loving and hoping.
In one of the most soul-stirring and inspiring memoirs of the Holocaust ever written, Isabella (Katz) Leitner describes the deportation of her family to Auschwitz and their year-long imprisonment in one of the death camps in Nazi Germany. Isabella's youngest sister and mother are sent to their deaths upon arrival. For the remaining members of the Katz family, each day becomes a desperate endeavor to survive, as the four sisters struggle fiercely to buoy each other's spirits and strength.
the journey of the Holocaust's hidden child survivors
Rosen, Richard Dean
The real-life puzzle of what happened to the generation of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in hiding. This book tells the story through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries--among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survived World War II.
Through his writing, teaching, and activism, Elie Wiesel has worked to ensure the atrocities of the Holocaust will never be forgotten. A tireless advocate for human rights, he has worked to raise awareness of all acts of genocide..
Alter Wiener recalls his experiences during World War II, including the loss of family at the hands of the Nazis, his internment in five prison camps, and how one German woman risked her life multiple times to help him.
In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.
