holocaust, 1933-1945

A survey of historical research on the Holocaust, examining such topics as the rise of anti-Semitism, the objectives of Jewish resistance efforts, and the nature of public opinion in World War II Europe.

In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.

The journals of five teenagers who perished in the Holocaust.

Presents Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel's account of his experiences as a young boy with his father in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and features two novels, including "Dawn" in which a young man, living in Palestine after World War II as a member of a Jewish underground movement, has misgivings when ordered to execute a British hostage, and "Day," in which a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor, involved in an automobile accident, questions the meaning and worth of living.

While on a cattle-truck to an unknown destination, Alice, a young Jewish girl, begins to piece together the meaning of events that were never fully explained to her as her family hid in their basement from the Germans 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.

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Provides cumulative indexes for the "Holocaust Reference Library, " including the history, voices, and biography volumes.