personal narratives

"On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young womanrecently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a . . . correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon's relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared, Gershon heads for Cairo and Eileen forgoes her studies to work in the Air Ministry. [This book] is a . . . glimpse of life in London during World War II and a . . . portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved ones are called up to fight, some never to return home. Written over the course of the conflict, Eileen's letters provide a . . . glimpse of this historic of this historic era"--OCLC.

The author shares his life and his role as a decorated medic during World War II. Exploring his actions that saved many soldiers on D-Day.

Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.

"Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the . . . stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. In [this book], [she] . . . reveals the hidden corners of our nation of immigrants. She brings to light . . . stories of hope and resilience, and through them we come to understand what it truly means to be American"--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of nearly one thousand young, unmarried Jewish women who boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia, on March 25, 1942, believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, but instead were sent to Auschwitz, becoming the first official Jewish transport to the Nazi concentration camp. Of those 999 innocent deportees sent to be used for slave labor, only a few would survive.

"Ferenc Andai is one of approximately 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men conscripted to work as forced labourers in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, between 1943 and 1944. Subject to the whims of cruel Hungarian commanders and German overseers, the men are forced to work to exhaustion while they subsist on a starvation diet. For nineteen-year-old Ferenc, the only relief from his harsh reality is his company--an artistic and literary circle of men that includes the poet Mikl?os Radn?oti."--.

"In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph--- a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. .... chronicles not only the Simon family's relationship to each other and the past, but also the remarkable story of a young man who sacrificed everything for his political ideals"--Jacket flap.

Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.

A collection of personal narrative about World War II, as told to children from around the world.

Deanna Germain recounts the experiences she had while serving as a nursing supervisor treating Iraqi prisoners in need of medical attention at Abu Ghraib.