holocaust (1933-1945)

Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.

An account of the Polish resistance partisans who attacked German outposts, derailed trains, etc.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Drawn from postwar interrogations of 210 former members of the battalion, the author lets them speak for themselves aobut their role in the Final Solution.

Key topics discussed: Theresienstadt (Terezin), Auschwitz, Treblinka, Lodz Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, and more.

A young Jewish student with a medical degree was hoping for a literary career in 1939. Instead he has to fight to stay alive in the Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka, and Auschwitz.

A collection of letters Jews wrote during the Holocaust, selected from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem.

The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.