warsaw (poland)

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Presents a film based on the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and brilliant pianist who sees his family shipped off to Nazi labor camps, and manages to escape and live for years in the ruins of Warsaw with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer.

Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

A German soldier's photos record the destruction of a Jewish community.

A collection of 206 photographs that help document what life was like for the European Jews who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.

Halina Birenbaum recounts the experiences she had while coming of age as a young Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto and concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Roma Ben-Atar recounts the experiences she had during the Holocaust, describing how she survived life in the concentration camps by talking to the soul of her mother, who died at the hands of the Nazis.

A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto tells the story of the uprising when Nazi troops came to move the Jews to Treblinka and Auschwitz.