holocaust survivors

Traces the development of the Polish reaction to the Holocaust in the years after World War II, looking at Polish-Jewish relations throughout history and considering the moral and psychological conflicts that arise as a result of Poland having hosted the Nazi death camps.

Presents the story of two Polish Jews who fell in love while resisting Nazi's and were able to escape labor camps and endure starvation and disease before getting married.

Biography of Simon Wiesenthal, discussing his life and commitment to the cause of justice for Jewish people and to the pursuit of Nazi war criminals.

Captured by the Nazis as a teenager in Poland, the author tells of his survival and eventual move to America where he proudly worked and raised a family.

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.

Betty Schimmel discusses how she survived the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, focusing on her love for Richie Kovacs, a young man whose love helped her survive the horror of the concentration camps.

Contains the memoirs of Holocaust survivor Ruth Elias and chronicles her life from a small Czechoslovakian town, to the infamous death camp at Auschwitz where she faced possible experimentation by Dr. Josef Mengele, to new challenges after the war in Israel.

A memoir in which the author, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, discusses her quest to reconstruct the lives of her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.