ex-concentration camp inmates

"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless--and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--Provided by the publisher.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka quickly learns that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka. She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions"--Adapted from publisher description.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka quickly learns that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka. She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions"--Adapted from dust jacket.

Nobel Peace Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is shadowed by a documentary crew as he returns to his native village in Romania and relates the story of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Birkenau as a child.

Nobel Peace Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is shadowed by a documentary crew as he returns to his native village in Romania and relates the story of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Birkenau as a child.

After the music of a popular German American jazz band is banned by the Nazis in 1939, they escape to Paris where their young trumpet player Hieronymus Falk is arrested by the Gestapo and is never heard from again. In 1992, an original member of the band, Sid Griffiths, breaks his silence and finally reveals what happened to Falk.