concentration camps

Set in the near-future United States, Muslim Americans are being taken to internment camps which followed book burnings, curfews, and mandatory viewing of the new president's national security addresses. Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin watches with contempt at the complicity of the community and her own parents who accept their current plight. She makes friends both within and outside the camp intent on starting a revolution that will end the violence and Islamophobia.

Explores the history of the concentration camps located throughout Europe and created by the Nazi Party of Germany during World War II.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Describes how the Czech opera-choral conducter Raphael Scha?chtter taught Verdi's "Requiem" to 150 fellow prisoners in Theresienstadt and chronicles conductor Murry Sidlin's journey to bring "Requiem" back to Terezi?n six decades later.

Presents the 1956 documentary in which Alain Resnais visits the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek, and compares them with wartime footage of the horrors of the Holocaust.

During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.

Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There, she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat's troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America.

Title on title page is in Ukrainian characters; transliterated title from OCLC.

Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.

"As the captives of the Reich plan their escape, the arrival of someone from Ed's past and a destructive American air raid help them secure the tools they need for success. With a strategy in place, all that's left to do is work together and risk it all when the time is right. Will it pay off?"--Back cover.