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Assassins of memory

essays on the denial of the Holocaust
1992
Confronts the arguments of "revisionists" disproving the Holocaust, and asks questions about revisionism's underlying causes and influences.

Anne Frank

voice of hope
2001
A brief history of Anne Frank's short and touching life as a young Jewish girl keeping a diary in her secret hiding place in Amsterdam during World War II.

Anne Frank

2008
A biography of Anne Frank, including the historical events which forced her to hide with her family in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

QB VII

1972
In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, the renowned surgeon Sir Adam Kelno stands accused of having been a sadistic doctor in a World War II concentration camp.

The night crossing

1997
In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland.

The Holocaust

the world and the Jews, 1933-1945
1992
Discusses the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, and the aftermath when the Nazi war criminals were brought to trial.

On burning ground

a son's memoir
1999
The author shares the story of his father's struggle to stay alive during the Holocaust, telling of how Joseph Skakun, a yeshiva student in Poland in 1941, thwarted the Nazis by assuming a series of false identities, first as a Christian, then as a Muslim, and finally as a recruit of the Waffen SS.

Ruth's journey

a survivor's memoir
1996
Tells the story of Ruth Gold, whose mother, father, and brother died in a Romanian concentration camp in 1941, leaving her an orphan who was liberated three years later to wander the world, settling in Israel, then moving to Columbia with her husband, then on to America, and finally back to Transnistria where she attempted to come to terms with the tragedies of her life.

Heroes of the Holocaust

1998
Contains twenty-eight true stories about people who were willing to risk their lives to save Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Love in a world of sorrow

a teenage girl's Holocaust memoirs
2005
The author recalls her experiences and those of her family during the Holocaust in the Ukraine, and describes their times of hiding, death and betrayal, and other horrific encounters.

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